When is a good time to be an Entrepreneur?
How often do we hear this at the beginning of our professional career: This is the right time to be an entrepreneur. It will get more difficult as you grow older because: your responsibilities will be higher & hence your risk taking ability will be lower you would be used to a steady income & hence find it difficult to adjust with varying income your income levels will be higher and so your expectations from the venture will be higher this is your age to learn and entrepreneurship will teach you a lot if you fail now, you have enough time on hand to get back to the job market you will be your own boss and will be able to do what you like you will easily earn more than what your current salary is etc. etc. etc. Having got 'sold' to this school of thought about 25 years ago, experienced the journey myself and then seen many different entrepreneurship journeys as a Consultant/Advisor to them, I began to wonder whether all of this is true and whether these are the ke