Week 3- Reading Reflection

Chapter 2

1) The biggest surprise to me in this reading was the “dark side of entrepreneurship”. I have never thought about there being a negative side to entrepreneurship. As soon as I started reading about it, I understood completely, entrepreneurs do get lonely and sad, but it seems to me that those kinds of feelings will happen in this kind of career path, it’s just a given. It was obvious once I read the section. It makes me appreciate how much entrepreneurs have to go through to become successful.

2) One part of the reading that was confusing to me was the entrepreneur’s code of ethics. The code of ethics seemed very elementary and basic. Wouldn’t that same code of ethics apply to just about any job? Why are these codes of ethics specifically for entrepreneurs? I would like to know if there is a more specific entrepreneur code of ethics out there.

3) 2 questions I would ask the author:

1) Do you interview lots of entrepreneurs for this information? Or just a few?

2) Aren’t all these stressors and negative sides to entrepreneurship pretty universal over many jobs? Can you give more specific struggles to entrepreneurs?

I would ask these questions simply because I am curious. Where does this author get his or her information? Entrepreneurship is not a common subject of studies. My second question is my way of playing devil’s advocate. If I met the author I would want him or her to dig deeper and get more specific with the struggles that entrepreneurs go through.

4) The only thing I don’t necessarily agree with is the author’s general nature with describing the code of ethics, skills, and struggles of entrepreneurs. To me all of these points the author brings up could be used to describe almost any career job on the market…so why is the author making these characteristics specific to entrepreneurs? I don’t think the author is wrong, I just think he or she should have been more specific.