Entrepreneurship always comes with a few good reasons. Before you start your own company, you need to properly identify those reasons and make sure that what you create serves as an answer to them…

 

Of course, you should always keep in mind that being an entrepreneur is not about feeling…just sexy…It is all about being useful, productive and efficient enough to adopt the proper practices in order to build a sustainable organization!

If you have already reached the point where you need to justify your decision to start your own business, then things might start to become a lot more difficult, because important decisions often came together with false expectations and misinterpretations.

Being your own boss can be a reason to start a company but make sure it is not the only one! What you need to do is to look deeper into yourself or maybe ask for some advice from people who have already seen “the dark side of the moon”.

For instance, 3 good reasons for starting a startup can be:

–         You know how to do something better than nobody else does or just a few can do.

–         You have the chance to validate the usefulness and competitiveness of your product or service before you take any serious risks.

–         You are prepared to fail and gain experience for next time.

Above all, what you actually need to do before you start your own startup is make all your fears disappear…and decide that flirting with Failure is what you will be doing for the coming future!

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Peri Ghika

Pericles Nicolaos Ghikas (Peri Ghika) was born and raised in an agricultural family at the village of Kriekouki, in rural Attica, Greece. He later moved with his family to Keratsini, where he finished his secondary education. In 1997 we was admitted to the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. In 2000 he joined Virtual Trip Ltd, Greece's first student startup, as an intern. He left the company in December 2011 as a senior software engineer, having in the meantime dropped out of his studies. Having been infected by the entrepreneurship virus, Peri joined Starttech Ventures in January 2012 and works there since then; he has evolved to a senior venture partner, working both on the venture building and seed investments pillars of the organization.