| Entrepreneurialism is a dynamic that has two primary | | | | hard times when Ben died in a plane crash leaving the |
| sources of influence - passion and necessity. To | | | | young man to run the business alone. When a second |
| become an entrepreneur is enjoyable when you have | | | | restaurant was opened and established, a fire on the |
| a passion for a business idea you are passionate | | | | uninsured business was a huge setback. At that |
| about. However, if you have to become an | | | | moment the man determined he had no choice but |
| entrepreneur in response to a fight or flight mentality | | | | to move forward. Eventually experiments with |
| the story might be different. This is the true story of | | | | making poultry a positive fast food choice led to the |
| a young man who served his country in World War | | | | development of a fast food chain the serves no |
| II, but had no idea what he could do to make a living | | | | hamburgers. A business that began as a simple |
| once he was discharged. In 1946 this young man | | | | entrepreneurial effort based exclusively on the need |
| went into debt to develop the Dwarf House | | | | of a war veteran now features nearly 41,000 |
| restaurant with his brother, Ben. This young man's | | | | employees and represents 1300 stores. That |
| family had been devastated by the stock market | | | | businessman is Truett Cathy, owner of Chick-Fil-A. |
| crash just a few years before and it was those hard | | | | This entrepreneurial effort remains a private |
| times that made it important for there to be a | | | | company and Cathy has instituted a policy that |
| success with the restaurant. His father had been an | | | | keeps the stores closed on Sunday so families can |
| insurance salesman, so the boy leaned how to make | | | | be guaranteed a day away from work each week. |
| a return on a simple investment and the importance | | | | Cathy is also a well-noted and enthusiastic |
| of responding to the needs of others. He could make | | | | philanthropist. Cathy provides some great advice for |
| a nickel if he bought a six-pack of pop and sold them | | | | others seeking to fulfill either an entrepreneurial |
| individually to thirsty neighbors. This was the do or | | | | dream or a business birthed in necessity, "Contrary to |
| die mentality that drove the man to create a | | | | what you may have been taught in business school, |
| restaurant from a building that was too small in a less | | | | your net worth is not the sum of all you have |
| than idea location using money he could not pay back | | | | managed to accumulate in your lifetime. When you |
| if the business failed. One of the earliest difficulties | | | | die, those who survive you will measure your net |
| this man faced was trying to find supplies to run his | | | | worth by what you have given." |
| business. Wartime had made it difficult to find enough | | | | Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. |
| supplies to keep a business going. It was even more | | | | He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other |
| so with a new business. The business would fall upon | | | | web projects. |