Build Your Own Business, Be Your Own Boss, By Your Own Bootstraps — is inspired by a Paul Graham quote in The Launch Pad: Inside the Y Combinator by Randall Stross, which tells the story of Silicon Valley’s most exclusive school for entrepreneurs.
Graham runs that school and is a legend in the Valley.
Stross asked him why Europeans seem to be less entrepreneurial than Americans. Graham said it is not because they have “less balls” than Americans. Graham said Europeans just don't have the examples of entrepreneurs that Americans have to learn from.
Examples of entrepreneurs from which we learn.
Yesterday, I told you about how I found myself surrounded by examples of young entrepreneurs inside Start Garden, a startup business incubator in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.
They filled the Start Garden’s lobby that day, and they are everywhere in Grand Rapids every day. It isn't that Grand Rapids’ balls are bigger or brassier. It is just that this community not only has entrepreneurial examples, this community applauds those entrepreneurial examples.
Grand Rapids sees itself as a community of entrepreneurs.
It is the same for the Detroit area,especially with the rebuilding effort underway there, except maybe they are not applauded like Grand Rapids’ entrepreneurs because of the Motor City’s Big Three, big company mentality.
What’s it like where you live?
Build Your Own Business will help today’s entrepreneurs tell their stories, along with looking at the history of entrepreneurs not just in Grand Rapids, but wherever there are stories to be told.
The idea is to learn by all of their examples, and yours too. Let us know what you are working on, dreaming of, and who is inspiring you. Please share and help us learn by your examples, too.
For more examples of entrepreneurs, check out the BYOB section of the Read Tab in the free Rod Kackley app that you can download for iOS or Android devices, or go to www.rodkackley.com.
Quenching The Thirst tells the stories of the entrepreneurs who started Grand Rapids craft brewing industry.
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Farm To Fork tells the stories of the agricultural entrepreneurs in West Michigan.
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Last Chance Mile: The Reinvention of an American Community tells the stories of how the people of Grand Rapids changed the way the world sees their community and the way they see the world.
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