Filed in archive Entrepreneur by Steve Rucinski on October 2, 2006

But how do you get your own business? One of two ways--start one or buy one. Starting one is not hard and, thanks to technology, can be done in your spare time. If you sell something on Ebay, you have your own business. If you mow lawns, you have your own business. (Don't laugh about the lawn mowing. I was at a golf tournament with a friend and commented about a huge home overlooking the course. Turns out the house was owned by a friend of my friend and the guy owned, you guessed it, a lawn service business. In other words, he, or more correctly his employees, mowed lawns.)

When people think of starting their own business they usually think of inventing something or coming up with a new product that everybody needs. That doesn't happen very often.

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