Small Business Entrepreneur Blog

Or “Why all the mummies in the movies have problems walking?”

I write an entrepreneurship blog for more than 3 years now. Writing the Small Business Entrepreneur blog also involves a lot of reading – I call it becoming more educate. Anyway the bottom line is that there are a lot of stereotypes when talking about entrepreneurship. And so do the mummies movies.

I think in 99.99% of the movies I saw, all the mummies have a bad leg or some sort of walking disorder. I don’t know where this stereotype started from as I don’t know where all the stereotypes about entrepreneurship started.

Take this one for example: most businesses will fail in the first years (first 5 as I know). Ok, so maybe yes, most of the businesses are closing down in 5 years, but does this mean they have failed? If you ask me, no. If I’m starting a company, it doesn’t mean I need to get it through the centuries. It should work as long as it serves the purposes for which it has been built.

Or the stuff around entrepreneurs get more money, because they can get to keep all the profit. Yes, they get all the profit, if there is any. If you want to get $400 more on your pay this month, it surely means you should get at least $800 in the company to be able to pay all the taxes and cost increases caused by the production rise. And that’s the good case in which you don’t need any big investments to increase production.

Entrepreneurs like risk or are natural risk takers. I don’t know about others, but I hate risk. And if you are employed and something goes wrong, well, ok you might loose your job and income. But if you are an entrepreneur, you might loose your savings, your house and be in debt. And this leads to stress. Stress is a natural behavior of your body against danger. So, we don’t like risk.

I just wonder who invented the mummies walk. But who invented the entrepreneurship stereotypes?