You Don’t Need Permission to Start

One objection I commonly hear is that I don’t have the right resources to start.

You may not have the right resources today to scale your idea, but I believe everyone has the right resources to start. Provided you are willing to get a little outside your comfort zone and apply a staged (versus all out) approach to rolling out your vision.

Remember your job as an entrepreneur (or intrapreneur) is to systematically de-risk your “big idea” over time.

You need to do this to attract a team who will quit their current projects to come work with you.

You need to do this to attract your earliest customers who will quit their existing alternatives for your solution.

And you need to do this to attract your external stakeholders – your investors, advisors, and key partners, who want to grow with you.

You don’t need permission from anyone to start, but you have to start.