{"id":2903,"date":"2014-07-14T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:04:13","slug":"job-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2014\/07\/14\/job-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Job of an Entrepreneur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Changing Lanes we often talk about the difference between creating a business or a job for yourself.\u00a0 We also discuss building an asset that you can sell or capitalize on in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Being a capitalist often means starting as an entrepreneur.\u00a0 Successful businesses often start with an entrepreneur but eventually that entrepreneur is gone or no longer needed.\u00a0 Some businesses thrive and some only survive and 99% of all businesses started in a given year will not be in business 10 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Think about these businesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Ford<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Enron<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">DuPont<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Lehman Brothers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Microsoft<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kodak<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Lincoln Electric<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Blockbuster<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Netflix<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some are no longer existing businesses and they each died for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Others are still going strong, DuPont is over 200 years old,and the entrepreneur is long gone.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kiyosaki of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004XZR63M\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004XZR63M&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20&amp;linkId=K5FBDEVNEDS7A7GI\">Rich Dad, Poor Dad <\/a>fame, wrote in his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/161268050X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=161268050X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20&amp;linkId=S4GMKJILCOVDOM57\">Before You<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/entrepreneur.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2797 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/entrepreneur-150x150.png\" alt=\"entrepreneur\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/161268050X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=161268050X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20&amp;linkId=S4GMKJILCOVDOM57\"> Quit Your Job<\/a>, great tips on going into business and the warnings of failure &#8211; he knows first hand!<\/p>\n<p>The Job of the Entrepreneur is to design a business that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grow,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Employ many people,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Be a responsible corporate citizen,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bring prosperity to all those who work on the business,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Be charitable, and<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eventually no longer need the entrepreneur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Imagine what this world or your state or you community\u00a0would be like today if most businesses followed these simple principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Changing Lanes we often talk about the difference between creating a business or a job for yourself.\u00a0 We also discuss building an asset that you can sell or capitalize on in the future. Being a capitalist often means starting as an entrepreneur.\u00a0 Successful businesses often start with an entrepreneur but eventually that entrepreneur is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benchmarking","category-business-culture","category-business-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}