Your starter ship is usually a piece of junk… no matter what color scheme you put on it.

Back when I was in college, I used to love a game called Freelancer (if you look up when that was popular, you will see… that I am old).

The premise is simple.  

At the beginning of the game, you are nobody.  You have a barely working ship, no money, and no real skills.

You take almost any job you can get to keep the lights on.  

You trade between planets, you transport people from location to location, and sometimes you defend merchant ships (or rob them if you lean that way).

Then, after slogging it out for a bit, an opportunity comes up.

This could change your life.

You look back at what you are doing now and know, deep down, you don’t want to do it anymore.  So you give the only real answer there was… Yes.

But it is not an easy journey.

You expect to slog to the end with this new job, but suddenly you find you are working harder than before, with more risk, and almost no short-term reward.

Each mission gives you barely enough to buy more fuel.  Maybe restock your weapons.

But slowly, you get upgrades.  Sometimes they are perks of the job itself, sometimes it is because you save up, and sometimes it is just dumb luck and you are in the right place at the right time.

It feels like it lasts forever, until one day you wake up and you realize you have a top-of-the-line starship, that can travel between the stars in a fraction of the time your old gelapi could and that you can fight off all but the most powerful pirates without breaking a sweat.

That is business.  That is entrepreneurship.

So, whether your goal is to build an e-commerce business, a Saas Business or an online school like mine, dust off your old computer and try to book up Freelancer.

You may learn something and be a better business person for it.