Unionwear CEO Mitch Cahn has three pieces of advice for anyone looking to start their entrepreneurial journey. 

First, he says, start jumping through the hoops. What does he mean by this? If you want to go after an opportunity that nobody else has, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops. Just go through those hoops and there is probably a big reward on the other side. 

You can succeed in business by doing difficult things that other people don’t want to do and doing those things over and over again until they are no longer difficult. Once those difficult things become second nature, you can then hire other people to do those things for you and you can move on to the next thing.   

Second, if you want to do your own thing, you won’t have a boss so it can be difficult to motivate you to get things done. So he suggests you build a system to make sure you get things done. Mitch swears by the book “Getting Things Done.” This means being as productive as possible and get the most important things done first.

Third, surround yourself with people who question and challenge you. You don’t want yes-men. You won’t be right most of the time, so you need the support of others (peer groups, employees etc.) to make sure you continue to get the feedback you need. 

There’s a lot more to being an entrepreneur, but these pieces of advice could be very helpful to anyone looking to get started.

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