Comments on: Business Education Part 3: Getting The Right Friends http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/ How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brian Armstrong http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-317 Brian Armstrong Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:19:22 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-317 I sympathize Bruce. For years my parents would keep subtly suggesting I get a job every time I spoke to them, like this was some faze I would grow out of! Brian I sympathize Bruce. For years my parents would keep subtly suggesting I get a job every time I spoke to them, like this was some faze I would grow out of!
Brian

]]> By: Bruce Donohue http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-304 Bruce Donohue Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:14:40 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-304 friends and family are the first to try to undermine or torpedo an idea if it doesn't fit into their frame of reference or their threshold level for risk. My parents were both gov't. workers at NSA and had a job lined up for me. They were all about "security". They thought they must have somehow adopted me or dropped me on my head when I embarked on a business career. Of course they came around when I started making more than both of them combined. It was a never ending source of consternation for me that they were not only not supportive until that moment but actually even tried to sabotage my efforts either subconsciencly or not. Now they refer me customers...go figure. When I joined the Undergraduate Entrepreneur's club at the University of Maryland I met like minded people I could bounce my ideas off of. Although in finishing , I dare say that I don't always want just supportive people(esp. yes men) because I am the eternal optimist and it's good to have someone to be yin to my yang when it comes to spending money and making business direction altering strategies who will make me think through something enough to verify that it will legitimately work out by testing the concept first , where my inclination would be a take no prisoners, forge ahead, and think on the way approach(which leads to trouble sometimes.)Bruce Donohue friends and family are the first to try to undermine or torpedo an idea if it doesn’t fit into their frame of reference or their threshold level for risk. My parents were both gov’t. workers at NSA and had a job lined up for me. They were all about “security”. They thought they must have somehow adopted me or dropped me on my head when I embarked on a business career. Of course they came around when I started making more than both of them combined. It was a never ending source of consternation for me that they were not only not supportive until that moment but actually even tried to sabotage my efforts either subconsciencly or not. Now they refer me customers…go figure.
When I joined the Undergraduate Entrepreneur’s club at the University of Maryland I met like minded people I could bounce my ideas off of. Although in finishing , I dare say that I don’t always want just supportive people(esp. yes men) because I am the eternal optimist and it’s good to have someone to be yin to my yang when it comes to spending money and making business direction altering strategies who will make me think through something
enough to verify that it will legitimately work out
by testing the concept first , where my inclination would be a take no prisoners, forge ahead, and think on the way approach(which leads to trouble sometimes.)Bruce Donohue

]]> By: Adam Donkus http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-283 Adam Donkus Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:06:01 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/92/business-education-part-3-getting-the-right-friends/#comment-283 Friends can either be a blessing or a curse, a curse that is if the phrase guilty by association has negative implications on your life. Just came across your blog via your Feedburner post on Problogger. The effectiveness of guest blogging is really a great way to get your name and site out there. I will have to work up the courage and do it myself eventually. Love your 30 day series, although only had time to read the first several days, will subscribe so I can read the rest. Adam Friends can either be a blessing or a curse, a curse that is if the phrase guilty by association has negative implications on your life.

Just came across your blog via your Feedburner post on Problogger. The effectiveness of guest blogging is really a great way to get your name and site out there.
I will have to work up the courage and do it myself eventually.
Love your 30 day series, although only had time to read the first several days, will subscribe so I can read the rest.
Adam

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