Hey,
I was wondering about ENTP's entrepreneurship experience, what made you do it or do you think would make you do it. Do you have any plans to do it?
What about more experienced entps: Did you have plans to try to go in business for yourself? Have these plans/temptations turned into something concrete and if yes or no how and why ?
I started a business a few years ago, but I don't want to show off, so how about I tell you my childhood entrepreneur stories?
It all started with a lemonade stand on a hot Texas day in July. I liked this thing they called money. I wanted more...
I eventually moved on to selling photocopied lyrics of the top songs for a quarter to the suckers at my elementary school.
Yeah, I was on the fast track to financial freedom until I walked past a pet store window with my Dad, then every dime went to building the most awesome hamster cage of all time. Yes, it was sweet!
In Junior High I became restless and my pockets empty. Tired of the boring clubhouse pool games during the summer break, my friends and I were going to construct the ultimate slip & slide in my parent's spacious backyard, but I needed cash. My dilemma, my parents would buy me one slip & slide, but that would not be sufficient for this project. Oh no, I wanted more. I always wanted more.
I began shuffling through my subdivision's newsletter, when I came across listings of kids like myself (at the time) advertising their babysitting services. So, I called and requested to have my name listed in the next publication. Man, I didn't want to sit back while the other older babysitters got called first. I didn't have patience to wait it out in hopes that someone would think to look in the newsletter for a babysitter. I wanted customers now! I was determined to figure out how to make it happen.
Suddenly, I had a brilliant idea. The subdivision puts out a telephone directory and lists the birthdates for every child in every household in my neighborhood. I was going to call every house in my subdivision with kids of the appropriate ages and solicit my services! And I did! For several days straight. Almost immediately, the calls for my babysitting services started pouring in. Apparently, none of the babysitters thought to telemarket. That's right, winning!!
I had more business that summer than I could handle. More cash coming in than any junior high kid I knew. I even had enough business to share with my ENFJ sister. I thought heck, she loves kids, kids love her, she loves money, she saves her money; I want her on my team. If she would take on my extra business, I could keep my customers happy and she would be saving the extra money, and if all goes well I'll sucker her out of some of that money to help with the project that she would also enjoy.
Good times.