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DQ News: What Scares Entrepreneurs?

Everyone has a different set of fears. Little kids may be afraid of the dark, some people may fear the unknown, and entrepreneurs have their own list of fears, too. Forbes considers a few fears that some entrepreneurs may face.

Losing my drive: Leila Janah founded Samasource, a non-profit that gets women, youth and refugees in the developing world technology-based jobs such as data-entry and call centers. It provides a livelihood to thousands, both in a paycheck and, more importantly, skills. She does it through “jugaad.” Jugaad, Leila tells me is a Hindi word that roughly means “doing more with less.” “As more people join Samasource and we secure new funding and better office space, I fear that we’ll lose our jugaad spirit and get complacent,” she says.

Submitting to consumerism: Photography is an art, not a product. It should tell a story, not record a moment. That is what Parris Whittingham, an entrepreneur behind his own studio that specializes in relationship photography believes. He strives to tell love stories. He has to do so while also keeping his business in the black. In a competitive market, he says it’s easy to “sell something I don’t truly believe in,” meaning taking photographs that lack emotion or meaning; that are just superficial. “Losing my passion to capture the stories of the couples and people I’m photographing in order to stay in business terrifies me,” he says.

What scares you?

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