Re:Did your mother influence your entrepreneurial spirit?
by SwellJoe on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:11PM
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Absolutely.
My mom opened a furniture store when I was about 10, and gave me my first paying job. Seeing her work for herself, successfully, for years, gave me the stubborn will to be an entrepreneur I have today. (She's not the only entrepreneur in my family...my dad had an electronics shop, my dads mom owned a thrift store, and my moms dad owned an auto body shop.)
Entrepreneurialism is seemingly either genetic or picked up from parents, because my sister also owns her own business, and I'm on my second (or third, if you count my computer repair business when I was in middle and high school).
I think it was my dads idea to make me earn half of any major purchase (like bikes, guitars, computers, etc.), which I suspect was also instrumental in my becoming an entrepreneur.
My mom opened a furniture store when I was about 10, and gave me my first paying job. Seeing her work for herself, successfully, for years, gave me the stubborn will to be an entrepreneur I have today. (She's not the only entrepreneur in my family...my dad had an electronics shop, my dads mom owned a thrift store, and my moms dad owned an auto body shop.)
Entrepreneurialism is seemingly either genetic or picked up from parents, because my sister also owns her own business, and I'm on my second (or third, if you count my computer repair business when I was in middle and high school).
I think it was my dads idea to make me earn half of any major purchase (like bikes, guitars, computers, etc.), which I suspect was also instrumental in my becoming an entrepreneur.