About time, money and knowledge as entrepreneurs
Learning is a wonderful and a slowly, painful process when we entrepreneurs are in early stages with no sustainable means and desperate for results. We want to go faster than what our human nature can take with its limiting structures, habits, social responsabilities and preconceptions. The speed of learning is of essence for us as entrepreneurs.
In fact what I am coming to realize is that we entrepreneurs have no
time for learning. Yes, no time for learning with a solo approach when
it comes to action. We should look for people that already know what
we need to learn and team up with them to make things happen, in no
time: mentors, partners, team members, volunteers, etc.
It is also of essence to recognize what strategies for financing our time and learning are the best with our given circumstances. A "mother" entrepreneur who wants to keep her family needs a financing strategy different from a single, student entrepreneur leaving college. This may look a trivial understanding but it is not. (If anybody knows of such studies, please share it with this post.)
As I always like to look at things, there is a paradox in every story. This one is no exception. Early financing in "inadequate" degree can hamper the future of an initiative as the need is the mother of invention and financing may end up reinforcing the nonworking approaches and rather being the mother of costly and inappropriate solutions. In fact, I would rephrase this famous statement by saying that the need is the mother of learning acceleration and as a consequence we invent. Could somebody know of the right times and the adequate levels of financing? probably after having done that and being there.
As my former advisor at MIT once told me, you just hope that you will do it in time not to face an irreversible consequence you did not balance appropriately. At this period of early-stage struggles, I am just hoping I will be able to keep my attention fronts in "dynamic" balance.
This just sounded like a hymn to my Aha moment, my frustrations and my stubborn perseverance. Moving along.