An Entrepreneur’s Day Out or Why I Shop Alone
Entrepreneurs are different, that’s a common theme on Startup Nation.
We work differently. We think differently. And, by the looks of my Startup Nation profile pic, we dress and wear our hair differently. But, maybe that’s just me.
A case in point: I went shopping with my friends. They’re your average corporate hard-charging, salary-seeking, bonus-pimping 40-hour-a-weekers.
Now, as we walked past the shelves and found something nice, here’s our thought patterns.
My friends pick up the product and say: “Isn’t that cool?”
And here’s what I say: “Wonder who invented this? Is it patented? Who has the rights to it? Hmmm. It’s a new color scheme; is this a new color choice? How did they place it in the store? Is this an exclusive, or did they sell it to all the clothing chains? How did they market this? What kind of marketing research did they do? Wonder if they sell this online? What’s the margin on this bad boy? Can I make something similar, something better?”
This is why I’m an entrpreneur. And why I don’t get asked to go out shopping with my friends very often.
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I have the same ideas, but I keep them to myself. Whenever I’m out with my friends at a restaurant, bar or club I’m always wondering how much are they making, how much they would pay for someone who could increase their business, what’s their marketing approach, how much they make per person, how could they franchise etc.
Imagine if people didn’t think like us? There would be a world full of consumers and no one to supply them. Honestly I doubt a lot of my friend/co workers even consider ideas of making money from anything else but a regular Job. I doubt they even think it’s possible.