Shadrach White who is the CEO of cloudPWR The company which is found in 2011 brought us an interesting story. Through by his timeline, it shows the upside and the downside of the Entrepreneurial life, it's like a roller coaster. He started with Rucker Park Basketball Gear which sells the jersy for NBA teams. In the beginning, the business was successful, however it failed because he was lacked of financial knowledge. That's also a important thing to us to remember when we start something, financial is what a business needs to know. They need to keep track the cash flow of the company, otherwise we don't know when we lost the more money, and how much we lost, it sounds like gambling. But in the story, I see he has a really special mindset which is he isn't scare about doing the thing he think it's right. While he walked through the dangerous street to ask for name permission, he knew he's doing right thing, he knew his goal that he needs to do it, and he didn't stop just because it's risky. And there's the other thing from his story which he mentioned is "Even though you followed every rules, you still can fail". The business is just not like math or science, just follow the formula and reach the solution. If it is, the percentage of successful business should be higher. And the last thing I find it made a really strong impact to me is when he asked "who in here works in sales?". Everyone works in sales, we sale ourselves, we are all material for sales.
The content in first ten pages of The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook describes Entrepreneur's aspects succinctly. In three pages 2 to 4, the book defines what is Entrepreneur's life, how its path looks like, what difference between Entrepreneur with Opportunist, how things work in Entrepreneur, and what things are important to become an Entrepreneur. After I read all of these, there's an uneasy feeling inside me. It's like I'm facing the ocean, which is so vast that I can drown in it. Furthermore, the feeling is also interested in Entrepreneur field after seeing how freedom it is, how big we can grow if we survive through all the risks. It doesn't really surprise me about five facts prove Entrepreneur is not an easy way to walk on. There's no easy way to reach and get huge reward at the end. To obtain, you have to give up something of equal value, and when you can't find the door, make your own this is how I see Entrepreneur after I read ...

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