What are you afraid of as an entrepreneur?

What are you afraid of as an entrepreneur?

Every entrepreneur has a fear in their hearts, but they rarely share that feeling, and six anonymous entrepreneurs in this article are willing to open their hearts to everyone else.

In fact, those who can choose to embark on the entrepreneurial path are courageous enough. However, even the founders who have been in business for many years and have been successful in their careers have experienced anxiety and fear. Perhaps, some fears are insignificant in your eyes, and some fear makes you familiar. But one thing's for sure, it's not always easy to share your fears with others.

Many entrepreneurs feel they have to be confident all the times to win the trust of their customers, employees and investors, so they have to hide their inner fears deeply. Here, let's take a look at the experience of the six founders:

1. "I am afraid that I will work tirelessly and that at last life will be spent at work, unable to enjoy life." I don't have time to be with my family. I have twins and just started to learn to walk, and I don't want to face the iphone and laptop all day and ignore them. When I'm with them, I don't want to be bothered by work, I want to spend more time with my family and not be interrupted by emails or phone calls. I want more free time, can think, can read, can relax for a walk. When I started my first company, I felt that I had to be busy to prove my importance. Now, free time is the mark of true success. "

2. "I am afraid that the company does not have enough cash flow every month, fearing that my company is completely shut down." I've cried so many times that I'm afraid that these situations will become reality. "

3. "My greatest fear is that when working closely with partners in the industry, such as suppliers, when they find out that we are a small company, they may not be willing to cooperate with us." "

4. "My biggest fear is that I don't want to be an entrepreneur." Before I started my own company, I hated business because it was relentless, the only goal was to maximize profits and a lot of rubbish, such as working long hours, bad bosses, boring meetings, and so on. But now, I have my own company, but found that becoming an entrepreneur did not solve my problem. In order to succeed, I wound up a clockwork, work for a long time, and pay is not guaranteed, no organization, no colleagues can talk. Although you can read all day in magazines about the story of Laid-off workers starting out as millionaires, the odds are less than 1%. I think the vast majority of entrepreneurs and I, like me, it is difficult to really enjoy the business, we are very worried, do not know where the next customer, do not know whether they hired people are reliable. As a matter of fact, I don't even have a vacation and I don't get any benefits, and my colleagues feel sorry for me. "

5. I'm afraid I'll die soon. When I was 30 years old, I was told that I might die of cancer, and I was 31 years old this year. "

6. "As a female entrepreneur, I'm worried that no matter how good my product is, I can't compete with male entrepreneurs." I may not be able to get as much money as they can, get as much compensation, or even get enough trust. In the end, male entrepreneurs will still be "superior". Even if it is successful, it will be said to be a face, but a vase. To be honest, women have always been second-class citizens in business circles, and I don't think that's going to change in my lifetime. "

What are you afraid of as an entrepreneur?

Via Inc Translations/fast Carp