In the beginning, what motivated you to become an entrepreneur?

well i decided to call myself an entrepreneur . and write out a business plan ..now i'm guessing at five year income goals to see how much i can raise for this app i will need you to sign an nda for me to tell you about.. because with the right backer .. it will be bough for billions in a few years ..by google or facebook ..

ok i am going to tell you what the ap is but promise to keep it super secret ..but it is cool it will be a hit with teenage girls .. which is where most big things start today ..it is an app called emoji snap ..

i put on a hat with a lcd screen and a little camera in it .. that i can work using my cellphone .. an emoji pops up on the sceen and the person in front does there bast emoji impression face .. and the camra takes the photo ..and put a picture of your face next to the emoji or who ever was in front of the camera ..

and sends it to freinds who vote on it .. it will be worth 2 billion in 2 years .. next big thing i tell you

Money.

I hated being poor. The ignorance, irrational beliefs, anger that came with it. I hated it all.

Anything....to not be poor.

Having to work for someone who tells you what to do how much you are going to do if for gets old.

It really doesn't matter what profession you are in. When you work for someone else you have no control of either of those things.

I've wanted to be an Entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. (When I was little I used to dream about owning a joke shop.)

Also I learned growing up that not having much money sometimes affects People's happiness. One Christmas my Mum was in tears because the money she saved up somehow went missing or something.

Today I'm making my dreams come true and hoping to do a lot of good with my money. (Including helping my Family).

Great question. : )

great story .. thank you for sharing claude .

until summer last year i had been a street performer in Vegas work in my own costume for a year and a half living on tips alone..until the city of las vegas phased in a ban of street performing on the strip .. squeezing the money i was making down to nothing..

I'm 40 and my physical health got messed up with my back over several jobs in my 20s ..so the last 10 years has been rough..but i started improving my health 4 years ago and right now most of my chronic pain is gone ..but at this point i can't get a regular job ..as my back does not last a full day without being in major pain..doing any job i can get where i am right now ..

to fully restore my health i need to get somewhere where i can grow my own food much of the year and also as a business get into growin culinary and medicinal herbs..but stick more to high cost per pound culinary herbs something i can start out and survive doing then grow into a very profitable business over time ..and do for the next 20or 30 years or more ..

much of my work life was in food processing and the last day labor work i did for a bit over a year .. was at a solid blending and i won't get into detail but i have always had a preference for producing ingredients or parts verses finished products ... so that why what i am focusing on now is appealing to me..just starting with zero resources .. no debt but no nothing and a few thousand miles between where i am and where i want to set up ..

but i have only really settled down an pruned off all the other ideas that where cluttering up my focus ..in the last few days and this is the first time i have put it in writing anywhere ..

"Well, I had a vision when I was twelve. And I saw a man on a flaming pie, and he said, 'You are an entrepeneur with an E.' And so I are."

Another thing that caused me to be my own boss is that , when I was 18021...I had a few jobs as an employee, working in metal shops.

It wasn't so much the jobs I hated, it was working with employees. Always complaining about the work, their pay, how unfairly they were treated, the government....being around them drained the life out of me.

It wasn't that I disliked them, but I knew I wasn't one of them. And for whatever reason I had no fear of working for myself.

Being afraid of failure or afraid of rejection just isn't part of my makeup. It isn't bravery, believe me...maybe a lack of need for approval.

To be my own boss. The corporate world moves at a snail's pace for me. Too much bureaucracy, office politics, and delays.

As an entrepreneur, there is no slowing down. It's a lot of work, but if you are designed to be your own boss then it is loads of fun!

Good to know Jonathan, over time you will figure out what works from what doesn't, but just like Edison, keep going and the light bulb will go off, (so to speak).

Also good that you can make that remark here without the lets say, interesting conversations occurring.

True, loads of fun when you figure out something that works, and even more so when it makes disgusting amounts of money.

Unfortunately tiltering on the edge of the abyss may occur, but that is ok, the big rewards go to the brave, not the timid.

Quite a few gluttonous son of a guns.

Spill the beans, it's getting hot.

I did it because I didn't see a future for myself in school and I knew things won't go as fast as I want them to go. I had to walk every morning to my minimum wage pay job and take a bus to school at 18. I hated the fact that everyone around me had money and I didn't so I decided to do something for myself. Started with a Google search in 2013 and now I own a million dollar company.

I dropped out of college btw, what a scam.

This is very good question..

Money is the main factor but it depends on the type of business an entrepreneur is running..anyway the motivation should come from the inside of you somehow like a part of your mission in this journey

When I got started it was for money, freedom... the same stuff most people go after.

Now it's about my soul. That sounds dumb, kinda, so let me explain....

I've been doing pretty well financially for a bit, and I lost some passion a while back. When you're comfortable that can happen.

So I had to re-think things and figure out what would re-ignite the passion.

And for me, now, it's the sheer act of creation. And helping others tap into it too.

The people I work with do it for the money, but they do it more because they have to create in order to live.

So yeah, that's it now.

I came from a poor family. The generations before me were also poor. I got tired of the situation and decided to do something about it. Right now I have not reached my goal yet but sure enough, I am getting there. While it is hard climbing your way to success, living in poverty is also hard. If I had to choose between which "hard" I'd like to take, it would be the one that can bring changes in my life.

I've always wanted to own a business, I was daydreaming about being a "boss" when I was 6.

I started listening to hypnosis tracks and that elevated my intelligence to grow esoterically and try out new things.

People insisting to pay me up.

Opportunity to find yourself. Prove to yourself if you can do it. Own your thing.

I've always had this "calling", when I was younger I had no idea what it was really. I've always wanted to make my own products and make money off them.

It wasn't until I was older (20's) before I figured out what it all meant and figured out ways to do it.

Dreams. I didn't like many things as they were. I wanted to change them. I tried talking to others, but they were busy. In the end, I understood that I will have to do it myself.

Noone hired me. Then I had to run my own business.

Why I want to be entrepreneur?

I want to mark my own holiday

I want to go whereever I want to go

Sure almost is about money. It means If I have much money. I will solve all problem

That why I need to find the way to make at least 100-200 dollars per day based on the lowest hour of work

I started on make android application. I use 2 years for study and learn about it

It is a very long time.But on that way It make some money.Yes not much but I can live with it.

It take long time because I don't have anyone guide me. I study it myself.If I have mentor It would take 1-3 months

Now I have many application on app store. I have kid game and got many good reviews from it

Absolutely true It make money much more than my goal (100-200$/day)

Now I can do whatever I want. I'm happy everyday

For beginner It sound like very hard.But I'm a human not superman. It not hard

I think it depend on "just do it"

I really loved the idea of fun and freedom. I figured it'd be fun to work from home, and freeing. So I dove in. Then over the years, I added that circle the globe component to my work, so my home could be anywhere on earth.

It was interesting for me to read the comments, because I dream to be an entrepetuer, but I dont have enough money and motivation.

Good question Judey, it's important for us to remember why we originally wanted to become an entrepreneur to see if those reasons have changed at all and if so was the change for the better or not.
I originally decided to become an entrepreneur for several reasons. First is that I felt like it was a personal challenge to myself to find a way to create income outside of a job. I've since learned that this is an ongoing challenge the every entrepreneur faces everyday and requires a strong "Why" to stay committed to being an entrepreneur. Another reason I became an entrepreneur is that I felt like having the skill of creating money outside of job is actually more secure financially. It's not easier but it is a skill that can never be taken away from you and can be applied to many different situations and different markets no matter where you are in the world.
Most people who believe in "job security" have no idea what they would do if they lost their job and couldn't get another job in their field of expertise. Even someone who is still working at their job but has a business they're serious about on the side they understand the importance of not solely depending on a job or their livelihood, which ultimately gives them more financial security.
Being an entrepreneur also forces me to expand myself in ways that I might not do on a job. To be a successful entrepreneur you have to network and communicate with people to grow your business. Depending on the job many times people can kind of keep their head down do their job, and collect a paycheck. You can't do this as an entrepreneur. Even having an online business requires you to use social media, videos, email, and whatever else to get the word out about your business.

It ain't easy being an entrepreneur but it's more rewarding on different levels in my opinion.

-Enjoy Your Outcome

well one of the things that bothers me .. about this entrepreneurship thing the way people on this forum twist self improvements and it together .. is from studying successful entrepreneurs ..and listing to multiple interviews from them .. the main focus in the businesses they build is how they make people lives better .. they focus in on where people live are bad .. and think of ways to make it much better ..

THey don't start from view that seems to be a plague in self improvement .. look at the horrible nasty .. average people how big of losers they are ..must get away from them .. and not be like them .. these bad horribly nasty people ..

yes you may start by acknowledging people might have miserable lives .. but then build a business that gives them some way to make that life better ..

but then again you can convince people they just need to feel better and that is enough .. the easy way to do that is to first make them feel like crap or that they have crappy lives .. and the fill them with high powered flufy sounding motivation .. that props them up and make them feel good for a bit .. until they listen to the next one .. instead of doing anything that actually makes their lives better .. then you can make them feel real bad for getting enough sleep ... after all it not like there huge amounts of research on the nasty effect of long term sleep deprivation ..

The attraction was more about building an asset that could bring in a consistent sum of money without me having to work.

I've been very good at working for other people. Learning a way to make money online and actually working towards that goal is what keeps me motivated.

To which level I want to grow the business is unknown. I will make my decision when I get to that point.