Have you ever wondered why it was not you who started this new crazy buzz business thing that everybody is talking about? Have you ever used a product and service and thought: why didn’t I come up with this idea? Or even better: I had this idea years ago, why didn’t I start my own company with this back then? I guess most people could quickly come up with one or two reason why it was just not the right time, idea, place, environment, why there was just too little money to pay the bills while setting up the business. I’m personally an expert in ‘finding fatal flaws of business ideas’. To this date I’ve had tons of ideas and every time I got really excited about a particular idea it just took me a few days to find enough reasons to drop this fantastic idea. But I think I have finally found the reason for this: I’m a chicken – and being a chicken in business sucks!

My family likes security, I like security. Having a steady income, a regular, well paid job has always seemed to me like the right thing to do. I ventured out in the unknown fields of the ‘internet’ in 2001 and started my own website (www.movie-trade.com) which is no longer online but was quite a success back then. I had only run it for a few months when the german magazine ‘Stern’ called up to do an interview with me. The whole project was a bit of a grey area thing as it provided users a platform they could use to exchange movies. I thought that having an article in a magazine like ‘Stern’ would certainly not make this any easier so I decided to sell it to a random guy at a ridiculously low price. Since then I have thought about starting a new project so many times but have not managed to overcome my fears of not having enough money, not finishing my studies and of course of just failing. I am clearly a chicken! And being a chicken in business sucks!

I am now in a position where all those fatal flaws are basically gone. I got enough money, I finished my studies, I got no one to support. So why not start my own business? Well … I will … kind of … But what should I work on? I don’t really know yet. So I thought why not figure that out while blogging about my ideas, thoughts and work? I bet know there are thousands  of people out there who are chickens when it comes to starting a new business – just like me. I truly believe that there is a way to overcome our fears and on my way to being a (hopefully successful?) entrepreneur I will share videos, interviews, links, ideas, concepts, … with you. Because I have realized something: being a chicken in business sucks!

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