Entrepreneurship is a long long lonely road. But the success at the end of the road is well worth all the efforts.

Cheers

As Winston Churchill said : Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. And he might perhaps have been right.

Your descriptions of the “levels” might be accurate, however personally I feel that to be a successful entrepreneur, what matter is attitude and a completely different mind set. Products, sales and marketing and systems might be necessary, however they are like the tips of an iceberg.

I think success in business needs to be defined with a more holistic approach rather than just mundane charts, figures and systems.

A quick question : 2 companies somewhere in the world started their social networks online around the same time. Each had the same product, perhaps one had a better marketing and sales team, hungry market and team to execute their business. Yet one becomes Facebook and worth several billions while others just wither away.

So what is missing piece of the puzzle??

In response to “I guess that’s how the world works.” — For some people that is how they view it, but it’s an oversimplification of what the truth is.

I agree that money is the byproduct of entrepreneurial success but it is used as a metric to measure an entrepreneurs success.I guess that how the world works .By the way Jonathan sounds like Howard Roark from “The Fountain Head”.