There are many takes on what to do next, when you are an entrepreneur. Plenty of advice you could take from many different channels. One of America’s greatest entrepreneurs Steve Jobs is honest about the process: “Any rational person would give up.”
It's not a normal profession, though many of the American icons we collectively look up to (think Edison or Franklin) are historically famous and heralded as backbones of American society. They did, indeed, change the way we live. However, the part of the story that is usually skipped over is that their achievements were not without failure, ridiculous amounts of irrational optimism, and generally being a bit (or very) different.
According to Entrepreneur Week, being an entrepreneur is “the guy who didn’t want to work for the man.” (See below for their explainer):
Of course, at the center of any new company or start-up is a really great idea. Which brings us to Steven Johnson's live sketches of "Where Good Ideas Come From." As he explains, your hunches need to collide with other hunches.
Johnson says, hunches need “to come together and turn into something bigger than the sum of their parts. That’s why for instance the coffeehouse in the Age of the Enlightenment or the Parisian salon of Modernism were such engines of creativity because they created a space where ideas could mingle and swap and create new forms.”
