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By: Robin Bal

Robin Bal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:43:05 +0000

Hi Shane,

I will be looking forward to your post on this subject.

Always good to have a mentor mate, takes me back to your post about Mentors, that was a good one. Risk and opportunity, yeah thats why I call it calculated risk.

Take care and cheers.

By: Robin Bal

Robin Bal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:28:50 +0000

Hi Wayne,

GOOD comment mate.

As for me I don’t know if I am an entrepreneur or not and honestly it doesnt matter, yeah I am a risk taker, I call it calculated risk. I like what you said about seeing the opportunities.

Take care and cheers.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:09:42 +0000

Robin, you’re right. Most people should be very careful of throwing everything they have into an entrepreneurial venture.

Wayne said it best … seeing the opportunities is what entrepreneurs are all about. This is something I’ll be writing about soon.

I used to think an entrepreneur was just someone without a plan. A very smart mentor of mine taught me that an entrepreneur is someone who’s willing to take risk. And to take that risk, you have to see the opportunity in taking it.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:58:04 +0000

Now, I’ve been described as an entrepreneur, but I don’t think that I am.

I have the ideas, the drive and the ambition. But I’m certainly not a risk taker. That’s not how I work.

If the conditions aren’t favourable, I walk.

I’ve been working on a business idea for years. But because of the project’s scale, I fall into a funding void, which leaves me and my ideas in a state of limbo.

And as for the nature versus nurture thing, well, that’s misleading.

I think it’s more a question of are you a half empty or half full person?

If you see an opportunity where others see a barrier, you’re heading in the right direction.

But who am I to talk? I’m no entrepreneur…

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Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:19:59 +0000

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By: Robin Bal

Robin Bal — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:54:37 +0000

Hi Viv,

Thanks for your comment. I meant every word of what I mentioned about you. No escape, you got to fight.

And you really cant achieve much without sweat and sacrifice and vision and focus, the whole lot.

Take care and cheers

By: Vivienne Quek

Vivienne Quek — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:13:16 +0000

Hi Robin
Thanks for the kind words. Like the Chinese saying goes, the enemy is closing in and there is no escape route in sight. My only choice was to fight for survival via my own business.

Totally agreed with you that “if you are not prepared to sweat and sacrifice to get the boulder out of the little hollow and rolling, you’re unlikely to succeed”.