Want to Live In a Neighborhood of All Garage Start-Up Entrepreneurs - I Do!
It seems like everywhere you go, there are incredible number of homeowners associations, city codes, and rules for what you can't do in your own neighborhood, and even in your own garage.
It seems that to get a business license you have to jump through all kinds of hoops.
This is quite unfortunate indeed, and I would submit to you that it actually hurts small business owners and our free market economy.
It hurts entrepreneurs and startups.
That's the way I see it, and I'd like to take this conversation to a slightly higher level.
You see, the other day I was at Starbucks talking to a fellow entrepreneur who built several businesses, including two he started in his own garage.
Isn't that kind of the American dream, what this country is all about, that you can indeed build a business from scratch using your own ideas and innovation, and then sell that idea or concept into the marketplace as a new invention? Think of all the great inventions that started up in people's garages? Think of all the companies that started out very small and finished big.
Think of companies like Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Disney, General Electric, Westinghouse, and on and on.
Even Bill Gates and Paul Allen started out extremely small, working out of their homes, Bill Gates was still in his teens he was working at his parent's home.
Michael Dell of Dell Computers started his company in his dorm room in college.
Just the other day he took his public company private in a buyout for $24.
4 billion.
It just shows you can go from nothing to something great in the United States.
In any case during my conversation at Starbucks I noted that I would like to live in a neighborhood where everyone was an entrepreneur, inventor, or innovator of some type, where everyone has started businesses in their homes, and they were all garage startup, as they were all entrepreneurs trying to build something new.
Indeed, I doubt if I'm alone in the desire to live in such a neighborhood, I'm sure there are others, and rightfully so.
After all, this is the United States of America, and it is part of our foundational doctrine to pursue your own happiness, to build something, and to compete in the free market.
I just cringe when I see all these rules and regulations, some of them self-imposed by those living homeowners association neighborhoods, but other regulations too which come from city councils who can't mind their own business, or know it all's who want to tell everyone else how to live.
Maybe we need a place for the entrepreneurs and innovators, as it seems as if they are being pushed out.
Please consider all this and think on it.
It seems that to get a business license you have to jump through all kinds of hoops.
This is quite unfortunate indeed, and I would submit to you that it actually hurts small business owners and our free market economy.
It hurts entrepreneurs and startups.
That's the way I see it, and I'd like to take this conversation to a slightly higher level.
You see, the other day I was at Starbucks talking to a fellow entrepreneur who built several businesses, including two he started in his own garage.
Isn't that kind of the American dream, what this country is all about, that you can indeed build a business from scratch using your own ideas and innovation, and then sell that idea or concept into the marketplace as a new invention? Think of all the great inventions that started up in people's garages? Think of all the companies that started out very small and finished big.
Think of companies like Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Disney, General Electric, Westinghouse, and on and on.
Even Bill Gates and Paul Allen started out extremely small, working out of their homes, Bill Gates was still in his teens he was working at his parent's home.
Michael Dell of Dell Computers started his company in his dorm room in college.
Just the other day he took his public company private in a buyout for $24.
4 billion.
It just shows you can go from nothing to something great in the United States.
In any case during my conversation at Starbucks I noted that I would like to live in a neighborhood where everyone was an entrepreneur, inventor, or innovator of some type, where everyone has started businesses in their homes, and they were all garage startup, as they were all entrepreneurs trying to build something new.
Indeed, I doubt if I'm alone in the desire to live in such a neighborhood, I'm sure there are others, and rightfully so.
After all, this is the United States of America, and it is part of our foundational doctrine to pursue your own happiness, to build something, and to compete in the free market.
I just cringe when I see all these rules and regulations, some of them self-imposed by those living homeowners association neighborhoods, but other regulations too which come from city councils who can't mind their own business, or know it all's who want to tell everyone else how to live.
Maybe we need a place for the entrepreneurs and innovators, as it seems as if they are being pushed out.
Please consider all this and think on it.
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