My Journey to Entrepreneurship

This week I had the opportunity to listen Randy Pausch Last Lecture and he mentions about when he was little his family went to Disneyland and he had this dream to create things like that. But what I think help him to achieved those dreams are his parents that didn’t stop him for dreaming. The video mentions that his parents let him write in the walls mathematical formulas and those are still on the walls until this day. He asked all the parents a special favor that is their kids want to paint their room, please let them. This request could have come pretty handy if my parents would have listened to this request earlier. One summer me and my sisters wanted to paint our room in pastel colors and my parents didn’t let us and the following summer my parents went on a business trip and we painted our room by the time they came back, there is a saying that said “Is better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission” and that is what we did. Going back to childhood dreams, I think those ...

When I was 8 my mother asked her children. What do they wanted to do when we grow up? My older sister was convinced that I needed some extra screws so her answer was that she was going to be brain surgeon, my brother wanted to work with cars because that has been his passion since he was 2 years old, my little sister wanted to be a mommy to many children. I wanted to have a child care where I can teach kids specially boys to catch frogs. When I was reading the startup of you by Reid Hoffman, the first chapter title is "All Humans Are Entrepreneurs", this early memory of my childhood came to me and I reflect upon our age and first then fact that we knew what we wanted but there is where our journey began. We have the capacity to dream but to get to our goal is a hard road but a beautiful one. I agree with what Reid Hoffman mentions as "The carrier old escalator is jammed" referring to a way of work before even 30 years ago, it was either you are a doctor, lawyer, e...