I’ve been interacting with veterans from all over the country that are at various stages in the entrepreneurial ventures. Many ask advice on how to get their own start-up off the ground and what things they can do enter this wildly unstructured world of entrepreneurship. I stress “unstructured” because I’ve found that the only fixed rules of entrepreneurship are state and federal laws, other than that, anything goes. Based off of my experience with TripPhix, the more wild and crazy you are, the better.
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Operating in an unstructured environment is different for us military folk. We may enjoy our freedoms, however, we’re so ingrained with process and procedure that we’re often unaware of how regimented we are. Just ask any military person for directions. Do they point with their index finger? No, they’ll hold their hand with their fingers together, their thumb tucked to the side and throw their arm in a direction with the hand acting as a spear point. That’s what we do.
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