Thread: Presentation of me and why I'm here

Hello everybody, I'm going to start posting here so I thought a presentation is in place.

I'm 30, working with sales and marketing, have a semi-engineering marketing degree. Have done B2B enterprise sales and currently working for a small company, invented their internet marketing strategy and implemented it all from scratch, currently giving them incredible leads from all over the world, several of which can soon become business worth millions of dollars each.

I'm in my heart entrepreneurial. Don't like being a "cog". Don't like selling my time for money, unless I learn something in the process which will help me improve.

Currently, I'm in a place in my job where the company may grow and me with it, but also a lot of politics are going on and people don't understand the value I have contributed with, and some people are trying to "define" my role (and thus making me a cog rather than an entrepreneur following his own vision).

I have always been interested in entrepreneurship, but for different reasons (confidence, money, other opportunities which were safer bets, more urgent needs, desire to learn stuff by working for others) not done anything about it, other than some half-assed projects here and there.

The last 3 years have been with this company, and the entrepreneurial and free reign I was given (basically I had no boss - I could do anything, and the results are clear - I have delivered far more than anyone expected) made the job very enjoyable and without the risks of traditional entrepreneurship, and the free reign allowed me to explore and learn different areas (my whole knowledge of Internet marketing comes from the company's willingness to let me explore and experiment different approaches). Therefore I chose to stay.

But I am reaching a point now, where my role is being more "defined" and that is not what I want. So I'm slowly being lured into other pleasures, the pleasures of entrepreneurship on after-work hours.

I've just read (well not quite, I have just a couple of chapters left which I will soon finish) The Millionaire Fastlane, and it is a real eye-opener, and incredible book, and actually not only opened my eyes to this approach, but a big part of it actually brought me back to earlier "naive" beliefs that I had - that anything is possible, that iteration is better than "death by planning", and that learning is best done doing not reading.

I can't say how much I love the book. I usually underline the sections in a book I like in my Kindle so I can re-read them later, and this book has whole chapters underlined in places... It is such an eye opener.. But I guess I don't have to tell you, since you are already here :-)

I'm going to start by outlining one idea I have and continuously update my progress. I'm not going to be able to reach my goal in a short time - it will be a journey lasting for years.... I'm going to keep my current job while doing it, and give up my free time to achieve what I want to achieve... For a temporary period of time (until I either decide it's just not worth it, or until I succeed), I'm going to have to switch out my friends for you guys, my movies for courses and books, and my free time for implementation of ideas... I'm going to rent a cheap-ass place so that I can pay of my debts quicker and invest in my idea more....... Basically my life will turn up-side down. No more room for convenience and laziness left now, as this takes priority....

I am looking so much forward to this, that even the sacrifices I'm going to have to make don't feel significant. So I'll see you in the next post, where I describe my business idea in detail and start the process.

Thanks for the intro, glad to have you here. And thanks for the positive words on the book!

Thanks! I've started my first thread business thread and taken the first steps now, so will be interesting to see how that goes!