One winter as a kid who was also an aspiring entrepreneur. Opportunity arose. There was a big snow day. This excited me not just because of the snow sledding, snow angels, and snowmen I would be making, but I also hoped to make some money shoveling sidewalks. I actually walked door to door and asked every house if they would pay me to shovel their walk. Sometime I’m amazed that I had such courage at that age, or maybe I didn’t have enough social awareness to be afraid. But I walked around for most of the day, shoveled a few walks, and barely made any money. Some of them I did in exchange for cookies. Ambition is essential. Sales are great. But you need to know how to price yourself. I don’t think I had enough revenue to make the time worth it, yet I had a good time and this was one of my first experiences with entrepreneurship.
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It’s cool that you experienced this at a young age and you were able to be exposed to entrepreneurship even if you didn’t make that much money. I think being ambitious and going for it is really important when you have a dream or an idea, so it’s cool that you went out and tried, even if it didn’t get the exact results you wanted.
I believe experiences like these are what build great entrepreneurs for the future. Learning how to take incitive and find a way to make money as a kid. Could you be more efficient… yes, could you have a better price… yes, but it supports growth. One gets to experience the process of making money and solving finding a way to solve other’s needs.