In his book Bite-Sized Entrepreneur, author Damon Brown tells how he created two successful apps and gives a step-by-step description of how you, too, can become a high-performing entrepreneur. In this edited excerpt, Brown, who is also an Inc.com columnist, explains how it is possible to pursue your side hustle and still have time for a family life.
I never intended to be an entrepreneur. I just had an idea.
At the time, I was a freelance tech journalist living in San Francisco. A friend of mine was struggling to remember a quote. I asked, innocently, “Isn’t there an app for that?” There wasn’t, and I found myself turning into an entrepreneur for the same reason most creators do: I realized something I needed did not exist and, if I didn’t create it, it might never exist.
The odd part wasn’t the journey to creating what would become the app So Quotable: it was who was actually making the journey. I wasn’t a young, hooded Harvard dropout like Facebook’s Zuckerberg, nor was I a brash, brilliant college dropout like Apple’s Jobs, nor a rich, hip L. A. kid like Snapchat’s Spiegel.
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