Guest Speaker Eric Hanberg

     Eric Hanberg spoke on Thursday about his experience as an entrepreneur and the businesses he has been involved with and started since leaving his job. He talked about the advantages of being an entrepreneur (like being able to play chess with a friend at 8am) and the disadvantages (like stress and working long hours into the night at times). He also showed a graph of his earnings before and after becoming an entrepreneur and talked about how an entrepreneur's earnings are mostly peaks and valleys as opposed to the stable salary you would earn working for a company.

     Eric also had some sound advice for people who had never attempted to create their own business before. He talked about his experience writing novels and said the biggest hurdle is completing a novel from start to finish. In business terms the biggest hurdle would be taking your idea and working on it until you have a complete product ready for release.

     He also said that there are things in the business world that are just out of your hands and you can only worry about things that you can control, and be prepared to fail several times before you can succeed because a successful entrepreneur often fails more times than he succeeds. Those are two pieces of advice that I had heard a million times before about baseball when I used to be a college baseball player.