You may have read lot of articles about 10 biggest myths about entrepreneurship or top 5 myths about entrepreneurship but then which is the biggest among it all.
I think the biggest myth about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship is entrepreneurs are individuals.
Shocked!!!
If you take up any successful story of an entrepreneur, be it Steve Jobs for Apple or Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook, you always thing it is all about the individual but then it is never the case. It is always about the team that entrepreneur works with that has actually made all the difference and has converted his or her vision into reality.
In this age of Internet, you can argue that there are many online work from home options where you can make a big impact as an individual but let us see some of those individual entrepreneurship options and check if it is all about individuality or a team work.
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Blogging
Blogging as it looks like an individual’s job but if you look deep inside it, it is also a team work. We may attribute success of Problogger to Darren Rowse and there is no doubt about that but then what about his web designers that put the site the way it looks, what about the host that keeps the site up and running, what about his book publishers, what about the developers of job board at Problogger and the list can continue.
Any successful individual you see is not all about that individual but it is all about putting everything together. Yes of course it is the vision of the individual that has been converted into reality by his efforts to find that team and getting it done.
Individual freelancing
If you think you can develop every aspect of the project that your client needs, think about it. You may be very good designer but then design may be a small part of the bigger project. You can be a developer but what about the design aspects.
Lets focus on something different from web design and development.
Freelance photographer.
It may be If you want to be selling your photographs online, you can do that as an individual but you may need to put everything in place from clicking the picture to getting it online for your customers to buy it along with marketing.
Conclusion
You can always get things done using some tools like Getty Images for freelance photographer or WordPress for blogging but then it is also being developed by individuals who become part of your team not directly but indirectly your tools team.
Apart from indirect teams that you may not interact directly, you can miss the most important team in your career, the family. It is your family that helps you being what you are now and being with you in your lows.
So if you want to be an entrepreneur, it is all about getting the right team around you.
What is your team’s story towards making your vision a reality?