The path to entrepreneurship does not have to be long. be a leap into the void. In fact, I recommend starting your entrepreneurial journey while continuing to work in the corporate world.
This is the dual mission: working to generate experience, stability and savings while nurturing your entrepreneurial passion and paving the way for your purpose. Let's see how you can make this transition strategically and effectively.
1. Understand Strategic Duality:
The idea is, on the one hand, to grow or sustain your corporate work with good results, which will provide you with stability and security. On the other hand, develop your entrepreneurship, deepen your vision and your purpose. Both paths are important and must be managed strategically.
2. Carry out the "Market Test":
Why Is it possible? Because new entrepreneurial methodologies contain an important stage of exploration and validation before execution.The formulation of the Strategy, definition of the business model, choice of actors and understanding of their motivations, problem interviews, mvps development, validation and co-creation with the same actors, tests to validate the fit between product and market, generation of sales materials and even the first sales can be done perfectly working part time, in hours outside of work, work time lunch, etc.
The idea is to establish yourself and explore the fundamental stages of the future business without putting your financial security at risk.
3. Delve deeper into your purpose as a guide:
Having a clear and meaningful purpose is essential. Entrepreneurship is a path with a strong intellectual component, but above all, emotional and relational. This purpose will give you The motivation and resilience to face the next stages and find creative ways to overcome the obstacles you will find in your path. Above all, don't fool yourself. We usually lie to ourselves. Understand what We want to win is key to being able to consider what we choose or are willing to lose.
4. Embrace the importance of negotiating and co-creating the vision with your family:
Your new business adventure will require It will take time and commitment, and it is vital to have an open and honest conversation with your family about its implications. The key is to negotiate expectations and establish a balance that works for everyone. This first negotiation of "free" time outside of work will be The prelude to many subsequent negotiations and agreements when you dedicate yourself to entrepreneurship full time. What is their view? Your expectations? What Are they willing to give in? Is the future vision and dream shared?
5. Be willing to adjust your Way of Life:
Take the opportunity to sincerely state your intention to resign if the venture proves to be viable and successful.Do not fool yourself that you will later delegate it, or it will be difficult. executed by other partners. This scenario happens 1 in 1 million times.
Getting started may later require you to make adjustments to your lifestyle. These adjustments may include reducing expenses, the possibility of living with fewer comforts, in a smaller home, cutting off travel for a period, etc. Are they willing to do it? What is fundamental and what Is it optional? For whom?
Keep an open mind and be aware of flexible. The dual mission becomes triple.You must make your family part of this decision. They must buy into and co-create the vision even with all that it may involve sacrificing. It is key to the success of entrepreneurship.
6. Learn, learn, learn. Start with method.
"Entrepreneur who does not undertake is at a tremendous disadvantage" he repeated with conviction before foundingScalabl in 2016. "Entrepreneur with "methodology and perseverance beats an entrepreneur with money." More than 7 years later and having helped create more than 1,000 companies in 50 countries around the world, I insist: it is essential to read and arm yourself with methodology. You can use, for example, the Scalabl®methodology which synthesizes more than 200 of the best business books and helps put them into practice step by step.
7. Maintain Focus and Make Conscious Decisions:
Undertaking while you work will multiply your the options and paths. The opportunities, projects, possible partners. Even job offers.
Keep your focus on your purpose and long-term goals and make conscious decisions that move you closer to them. Focus is key. Less is more. Strategy is made up of the activities we choose to achieve a goal. The ones we don't choose are sometimes worth more than the ones we do.
8. Control anxiety, replacing the word "failure" with learning.
Accept, start by incorporating the idea that you will encounter obstacles and failures. If they don't arrive at the beginning, they will come later, multiple times on the roller coaster of undertaking.
These are normal and part of the process. The important thing is to learn from these experiences and use them to grow.Turn the obstacle into the path, as the Stoics would say, build from the opportunities and learnings of that obstacle.
But on the other hand, don't underestimate the times. Entrepreneurship is a marathon and not a race. The set of your decisions over long periods of time and the building of relationships and learning will determine your success. the result. Above all, the resilience you develop that will allow you to succeed. not abandoning, and the flexibility to change, listening to the desire of the actors and not becoming obsessed with your own ideas.
By following these tips and having a clear, strategic approach, you will be in a strong position to meet the challenges and enjoy the rewards of entrepreneurial life in the era of disruption and transformation.
