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February 22, 2006

You Need to Be a Little Crazy

You Need to Be a Little Crazy, Barry Moltz's book on "the truth about starting and growing your business," paints a picture of small business that is not the one I see in my mind.

Barry and I both started our full-time entrepreneurial adventures in 1991, but we have traveled very different roads. I am still building the business I started that year. Despite dramatic ups and downs, I see entrepreneurship as a process of learning and growing and refining. Barry has started and exited three businesses in that time, with a failure, a departure, and a sale. I get the feeling that he sees entrepreneurship as Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

The value of Barry's book, however, is that picture it paints of small business. Because his picture is reality for many entrepreneurs: it can be a wild ride. You will be tossed around. You may be thrown past the safety bar and fall screaming through the air. And Barry tells it as it is, with a candor that is refreshing, at times unsettling, and always enlightening.

I am more than fourteen years into a business that is working. A small business, in my mind, is a going concern, and Fire Someone Today is for people who are in the game today. Barry has played the game several times and a few different ways. He focuses more on the costs, challenges, and emotions of starting up. You Need to Be a Little Crazy is a great book to read before deciding if entrepreneurship is a game you want to play, and it is full of encouragement and enthusiasm for those of us crazy enough to say yes.

Posted by Bob Pritchett at February 22, 2006 04:00 AM

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