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Being a founder is not an easy way to make money.

I can tell you frankly with about 2 years building a Social Enterprise from scratch without salary and no funding. Bootstrapping can be very hard especially when you also have a family to support.

Even as a founder of a start-up I still have to help other young founders that are struggling aside from technical support at some point I also have to give some small funding too.

Not everyone is cut out to be a founder, and being a founder doesn't make us better than anyone else. We have fears, we are not as smart as you think, we look up vacancies sometimes to see another way of escape.

If you have an entrepreneur around you support them, send them words of encouragement especially entrepreneurs in the social sector who does so much for less to nothing. They are the unsung heroes take care of them, appreciate them.

I am Peter Ayeni I am passionate about using Technology and Design for Social Good.


http://www.ideahacks.xyz/being-a-founder-is-not-an-easy-way-to-make-money/

Particularly when you are in a business environment like Nigeria...founding a start up could be as difficult as anything when you have to contend with SARS, SACS, Mopol, local government tax people, state taxes, federal taxes, insecurity, power outage, terrible institutions, poor human capital, no protection of intellectual property, terrible judicial system, poor international image and above all some very wicked village people
...Yet some folks shout enterpreneurship on top of their lungs not knowing that in Nigeria it's a walk in a park!

mbele:
Being a founder is not an easy way to make money.

I can tell you frankly with about 2 years building a Social Enterprise from scratch without salary and no funding. Bootstrapping can be very hard especially when you also have a family to support.

Even as a founder of a start-up I still have to help other young founders that are struggling aside from technical support at some point I also have to give some small funding too.

Not everyone is cut out to be a founder, and being a founder doesn't make us better than anyone else. We have fears, we are not as smart as you think, we look up vacancies sometimes to see another way of escape.

If you have an entrepreneur around you support them, send them words of encouragement especially entrepreneurs in the social sector who does so much for less to nothing. They are the unsung heroes take care of them, appreciate them.

I am Peter Ayeni I am passionate about using Technology and Design for Social Good.


http://www.ideahacks.xyz/being-a-founder-is-not-an-easy-way-to-make-money/

You are so right.