Being an early stage entrepreneur is difficult as occasionally the roller-coaster business cycle is heading down and you need to stay positive. During these times it is best to have a great sense of humor/humour. Here are some funny stories from the last few months:
We met with this one entrepreneur, "RR" and upon reviewing a proposal, he held out his right hand to me, with his thumb on top and his bottom fingers loosely cupped below, he asked, "do you know what this is?" Not knowing where this was going, I came back with the ever pithy "uh, no." "This is a dead businessman (*). Because if he was alive he would be rubbing his thumb back and forth looking for a better deal." (* I substituted businessman for his term).
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Then there was this story:
"I need a list of your
employees and how much you pay them", demanded the government agent.
"Well," replied
the entrepreneur, "there's my lead developer who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him
$400.00 a week plus all the coffee and cookies in the kitchen.
“Our marketing person has been
here for 18 months, and I pay her $350.00 per week plus all the caffeine she can drink."
“Then there's the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day and
does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10.00 per week, pays
his own food, and I buy him a bottle of Scotch every Saturday night.
He also sleeps with my wife occasionally."
"That's the guy I want to talk
to......the half-wit", says the Agent.
"That would be me", replied the entrepreneur.
-------------------------------------------------------------- This one uses one of our favorite phrases: -------------------------------------------------------------- I should admit that I cannot remember jokes for more than 5 minutes, so I am sure that I am forgetting the best stories/jokes. DC
"I didn't lie to the customer about how many clients we have. I just told him a pre-truth. We will have 55 clients soon. It just sounds so much better than 6."
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