When to Strike Out on Your Own

Fortune Small Business:

Wow. I received a deluge of responses from readers who were inspired by my last column on Cheryl Mayberry McKissack’s decision to leave corporate America and start her own online market research firm. Some wrote to tell me about how they came to the decision to strike out on their own—and have never looked back. Others wrote to say that they have business ideas, but don’t know where to find financing, or are afraid to give up their corporate benefits—especially health insurance.

What struck me about the letters from entrepreneurs was that most didn’t say that running their own businesses was easier than holding down a corporate job. In fact, some mentioned that it was actually harder and more time-consuming than working for someone else. But they all agreed that the rewards far outweighed the drawbacks. In this week’s column, I’d like to share some of the readers’ success stories. Here are a few…

Some great stories of real entrepreneurship follow.

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