Entrepreneurial Philosophy?

[The Voice of Time]

There are so many entrepreneurial philosophies about what you "should do", or "must do". But can we make a philosophy about what you "can do"?

I'm not so much talking about limits, as I'm talking about working around those limits you already possess. I really dream about becoming an entrepreneur, and creating an empire of small game development studios where I can spread by ideas about good game development and be part in multitudes of artistic projects. I believe this is a strength of mine, and it's what I'm aiming towards becoming and realising in myself.

But game development is a hard, a tough, business. The battle for customers is fierce, the risk involved is high, and the returns may or may not be high however much labour you put in to it. I'm not a very quick-minded person, usually, though I can act radically quick-minded if I have a lot of energy. But those are moments, and not a reliable state that I'm in. Usually I'm slow, need many hours to get even basic stuff done unless I'm very familiar with it.

It's a strength but also a weakness. It's a strength because I'm often much more thorough than others, and it's a weakness because routine tasks become more complex than they necessarily need to. I'm also not a very fixated person, I have many ideas all the time and my mind is all over the place. So I'm thinking that typical entrepreneurial philosophies, "guides" and "words of wisdom", may often not work on me, I'm simply not developed to be that way.

I have courage, but also many fears. I have strong willpower, but also a lot of laziness. I'm not very reliable to work on any of the things needed to be a really tough strong, alternatively dilligent and dedicated, entrepreneur, the kind of character that I need to be. I believe that it's simply unrealistic that I should change much, it simply doesn't work with me. So I believe I need a philosophy of entrepreneurship that I can work with, something that tells me how to optimally use the strengths, and optimally avoid suffering from the many weaknesses, that I have, and that make traditional methods of success challenging.

Strengths: I'm good at presentations, good at keeping group moral, good at planning, good at seeing solutions (given they are not overly technical) and generally very rational (good at optimalization tasks in general).

Weaknesses: somewhat lazy, kinda slow, need a lot of variation, easily bored, unreliable at technical tasks and not good at pressure.

Any help to get? All help is welcome, even wrong help. I'm looking for inspiration. This is my future we're talking about, and I need a way to save it from doom.

[henry quirk]

I don't consider myself 'entrepreneurial' but I do self-employ (and have for many years) so mebbe I have sumthin' to offer.

You are your first and best property...treat yourself with the same care and caution you would any other rare item.

Don't let any one subvert or redirect you...lots of folks would hobble you, see you fail, or see you re-positioned as 'they' would like...be prepared to tell them all to go to hell.

Pick a direction and be relentless...you say you're "somewhat lazy, kinda slow, need a lot of variation, easily bored, unreliable at technical tasks and not good at pressure"...if you don't retrain yourself out of these traits the foundation of your work will reflect these qualities.

The less you must rely on others, the better for you...sure, some things (particularly in the line you're thinkin' about) will be farmed out, but the more you can do yourself, the tighter your quality control will be.

Don’t be too quick to follow the trends or to give customers what is popular...trends die, popularity shifts...an idiosyncratic service or product (especially a useful one) can buck convention and set you apart.

Prepare for a loooooong haul.

[The Voice of Time]

Thanks for your input x)

Don’t be too quick to follow the trends or to give customers what is popular...trends die, popularity shifts...

This I agree with. I'm not a trend person, but I'm very concious of what the customers want. But I'm arrogant and (so I believe) smart enough to figure out what they will want as soon as they get the proper introduction to it. I believe I can create demand, in other words. The hard part of course is finding the right channels for introductions, that may be more stress than I can handle by myself.