Tom Heeter

I think being an entrepreneur is something like an infection that you just can't get over. I have personally found that if you knew all the work and effort being an entrepreneur requires, you wouldn't do it because looking back it's WAY more work that you originally thought it was going to be. So, if you have a lick of sense my advise to you would be: take the easy path and DON'T become an entrepreneur. HOWEVER! IF AND ONLY IF, you are so filled with passion to see something succeed that you find yourself eating, sleeping, and living it. Then you have "caught the bug"! YOU ARE AN ENTREPRENEUR! Like the salmon who will swim any river to reach their spawning grounds, you will do anything to see your project get launched. As a fellow entrepreneur, I understand that it is this passion that fuels us; but it is our advisors, friends and family that keep us from getting off track. Listen to your own inner wisdom, listen to others, but most of all listen to your customers.