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While Nimble is not my first business and this is not my first blog, I came across my first post for this site tonight.
I'm posting a list from a blog I was reading tonight. (Find it here.)
DON LOPER is the blog for MWI's founder, Joshua Steimle. (Another link is down there on the right.)I usually don't post an entire entry from another blog but while I was reading this post a feeling of utter simpatico came over me. Joshua is someone whom I've never met although we share a number of mutual aquaintences.
He's regularly listed among Utah's upward bound entreprenuers and has obviously met with some success. But reading this post I was able to relate to almost every point. That came as something of a wake up call for me. The responsiblity of owning/running a business on which others depend is sometimes heartbreakingly tough. Most start-ups fail. That's a reality. I'm convinced that the reason many start-ups succeed is not that they are inheriently superior as a business but that they have an entreprenure that won't allow them to fail.
A quote from Admiral Jim Stockdale (from a posting on Bnoopy) who was a POW in Viet Nam for eight years.
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
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