Advice to share with beginning entrepreneurs

As part of developing your personal brand, I have one piece of advice to share with beginning entrepreneurs.

To understand if starting a business is for you, do this thought experiment. Close your eyes and imagine that you are already a successful entrepreneur. You have an office in Moscow City, turnover in the millions USD, a staff of 1000. You come to work at 11 o'clock in the morning, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and look out the window at the Moscow river, pondering how to take your company to the next level. Just then your phone buzzes with a notification that your accounts are all blocked, and your secretary informs you that a tax auditor is waiting at reception, and your partner in charge of finances has suddenly gone on vacation, and so on.

Try to imagine how this chain of events continues.

Open your eyes. Answer these two questions:

- did you run through all the possible negative scenarios and variations of them very thoroughly?

- did you get a rush of adrenaline and that feeling like you're about to start a sparring match?

Be honest with yourself.

If you answered yes to both, this is a positive—but not the only—indicator that entrepreneurship is right for you at this point. If you still have doubts, keep developing your skills working for someone else. If this post gets 50 likes and 10 comments, I will tell you why these are the first questions you have to ask yourself.