Comments on: Entrepreneurs’ Time

By: Stephen Haessler

Stephen Haessler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:01:08 +0000

Thanks for the insight Ryan. I suspect that division of labor has to set in at some level of organizational size. Sales and marketing are crucial in terms of disseminating good ideas, as you point out. And I suspect too that St. James of the Marche had to spend at least some of his time getting the word out to the poor about his innovative idea to help them make ends meet. Commercial challenges abound but, happily, so does human ingenuity.

By: Ryan O'Laughlin

Ryan O'Laughlin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:51:04 +0000

I think that entrepreneurs need to spend most of their time
focusing on the sales and marketing portion of the business.
In one of the most influential entrepreneurship books of our
time Ready, Fire, Aim, the point was brought up that it
doesn’t matter how great your idea is if no one knows about it. How all to often people spend all their money on getting a good website, but then they have no money to attract people to it. Thank you for the article.