FAUX ENTREPRENEURS

Before I begin, I should say that I know what it means to be an entrepreneur, it is a lot of hard work and dedication, and besides, I am one as well, who can afford not to be in this economy. What galls me however are those fakers who use entrepreneurship as a bludgeon to oppress people what in truth they are jobless wonders.

The faux entrepreneurs are one of those people who can be mistaken for normal working business owners, after all they talk a good game and kinda look like respectable, but you will be wrong!

These jobless, shiftless so and so’s are the snake in the grass just ready to spring at you with the classic line, ‘you know in my business, it’s all about the people’. Which is by the way the lamest line a person could give considering the fact that this jobless wankers are in bed till 12 noon, cannot say in 3 sentences what his business is about and to add insult to injury still thinks that having a business card is the same as having a registered business.

Spotting the Faux Entrepreneur

The truth of the matter is that anybody who owns a business is potentially a faux entrepreneur, don’t get me wrong, many people who have business but these interesting species use being business owner as an excuse not to find a job and leave their parents house.

I mean any random person who claims to own a business but cannot show you the follow up to this claim is a faux entrepreneur . They sit around, waiting for a business to come to them so they can reject it because they are ‘thinking’ about the next BIG thing!

Be warned because this shiftless wonders are everywhere, and here are a few things that might point them out to you.

• Someone claims they own a business but cannot tell you what it is about
• A business owner who is always in bed till 12noon, this is not a reason for despair, but in Nigeria unless your job somehow involves that bed you are not a business owner you are either jobless or a prossie.
• After 2 years of running your business you cannot speak of one thing you have achieved or potentials you have met with
• The person always carries a self help book and quotes ‘people who have made it’. I don’t know about you but most of the gazillionaire entrepreneurs I know, while admitting to have gotten inspiration from other sources have not made those sources their bibles.
• They are the first person in any discussion to pipe up with how we can make money from this idea. Don’t get me wrong money is important in a business but everybody knows that you have to make the investments to get the return. Nobody ever made any money lying on their back, except Jenna Jamison and even she had to get up once in a while.
• The one person who is always fighting in all events to get a freebie

Avoiding the Faux Entrepreneur

For once I cannot give you a glib answer on this, because the amount of faux entrepreneurs are overwhelming, they are like ants or flies, they clump around shit and make life miserable for those who want to actually get something don’t with their lives. However a few tips on avoid these group.

• Work – a faux entrepreneur does not work, so even if you give them a job on a silver platter, they will avoid it, because of ‘prior commitments’. Work is like kryptonite to them!

• The truth – Now the difficulty with the truth is that it can be harsh. I have been told that I am too harsh when I tell people the truth, but faux entrepreneurs have wax in their ears. No matter how subtly you try to tell them they don’t get it, so good old fashioned tough love is called for.
OI SHIFTLESS WONDER! GET A JOB OR REGISTER YOUR COMPANY AND DO SOME WORK.
Its harsh but one of two things happen, they actually get off their arses and get a job or otherwise they leave you alone, so either way you win!