> I really don't mean to be cruel, but it's late and I'm tired, causing me to
> type honest answers I usually regret later. But here goes: I cringe everytime
> I see a posting asking how to find printers, distributors, etc. Asking
> questions so basic that I can't even come up with a ridiculous metaphor to
> plug in here. Because I know that well-meaning people, true believers chasing
> a dream, are about to take thousands of dollars they earned at real jobs, or
> got from relatives, or God forbid borrowed, douse them in gasoline and set
> them afire. Actually they'd suffer less doing that.
There is a proverb I think all aspiring entrepreneurs have to put on the marble plate
and hang near
their desk:
Peasant girl left long-neck jar with milk at the backyard. Soon two curious frogs got
trapped
inside. They tried to jump out, but the jar neck was to high for them to reach. After
couple more
tries first frog lost all hope: "The jar is too big...I can't jump high from the
milk... I can't get
out...Its useless to try." But it could not stay afloat for long, so it drowned.
Second frog was a
bit more dump or perhaps more stubborn. It jumped, and jumped and jumped and jumped
inside the jar.
Of course it never succeeded because first frog was right - the jar was really too
high, frog wasn't
jumping very high from the milk and it was never even close to the top. But it kept
jumping, jumping
and jumping. The night passed. The frog was still jumping. However after few more
hours frog had
beaten milk into butter and easily jumped out from now butter filled jar to bask in
the morning sun.
Even more curious then before.
Mike is absolutely right. There no single sane reason why you business should succeed.
There is lots
of bigger and sharper and more experienced companies around. All your ideas are doomed
to begin
with. Be the second frog ;) Damn the logic, damn the chances, damn everything - just
keep jumping.
As long as you jumping - you haven't drown! ;)
- Max, Frog in his 3-rd jar.
