For a boot strap entrepreneur, his or her first obligation is to survive.
It requires what Jack Nicholson utters in Jimmy Hoffa: “I gotta to do what I gotta do.” You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do… to survive, for yourself, for your family at home, and for your family at work. You’ve got to survive—everything else follows from there!
Original writing date: December 18, 2006