Why don't more contractors become Entrepreneurs?

[Troll]

You wouldn't believe the amount of work involved in getting a company off the ground through pilots and into profitability from a standing start

The things that I remember are taking a PC (not a laptop) away on a family holiday so I could do the brochures / advertising etc when the kids were in bed , roping the missus into being a free call answering service during the day (some feckwits failed to realise that doing dirty phone calls to an 0800 number are easily traced!)

Then once you have your fledgling company up and running you have to take it to the next level and bet the house against it's success - not a decision to take lightly when you have small children

It really peeves me off when career politicians think companies magically spring out of the ground

In the end it is sooooo much easier to take the £500 @ day and have a family life

HTH

[DodgyAgent]

I think that quite a few do, do that. It's just youre not going to read about it on CUK because anybody who was a real entrepreneur is not going to waste their bloody time posting crap on an Internet forum.

The squirrel bothering Russian is an exception

As his personal agent please address all your communication with him through me

[DodgyAgent]

You wouldn't believe the amount of work involved in getting a company off the ground through pilots and into profitability from a standing start

The things that I remember are taking a PC (not a laptop) away on a family holiday so I could do the brochures / advertising etc when the kids were in bed , roping the missus into being a free call answering service during the day (some feckwits failed to realise that doing dirty phone calls to an 0800 number are easily traced!)

Then once you have your fledgling company up and running you have to take it to the next level and bet the house against it's success - not a decision to take lightly when you have small children

It really peeves me off when career politicians think companies magically spring out of the ground

In the end it is sooooo much easier to take the £500 @ day and have a family life

HTH

Why not set up a recruitment agency?. All you need is a phone and a pair of brass boll*cks

[SimonMac]

Considering the coding skills we have, I wonder why not many of us just don't go ahead and form startups that generate income, instead of actually having to go and work every day?

Lot's of contractors do, however not many CUK forumites have the desire to do so, which is explained by the amount of time they can spend on here

[BrilloPad]

I have setup loads of businesses. And lost them through divorce.....

[DimPrawn]

I'm working on plan b so that I can make enough money to move to Spain. I don't expect it to match UK contracting income or make me a millionaire, but fund an early working "retirement".

[KentDogWalker]

So the jist of it I am getting here is that is is just too much hard work, save divine intervention.

[DodgyAgent]

So the jist of it I am getting here is that is is just too much hard work, save divine intervention.

[d000hg]

Considering the coding skills we have, I wonder why not many of us just don't go ahead and form startups that generate income, instead of actually having to go and work every day?

Because the coding is about 10% of the work required.

[DimPrawn]

Because the coding is about 10% of the work required.

If that. Depends on the business of course.