Beating the Entrepreneur’s Curse
Unlike many of his friends who own small businesses, Alan Tiet, 46, a Vietnamese immigrant and co-owner of Dynamics USA, a Rosemead (Calif.) startup that maintains computer systems for small- to midsize companies, regularly takes vacations.As for those friends, “I think they’re crazy,” says Tiet, who took his family — his wife, Janice, and four children to Vancouver and Lake Louise for nine days in July. “They don’t have time to enjoy their lives. They say they’re getting their enjoyment from work.”
Tiet, who regularly works 60 hours a week, says balance is important. People who devote their lives exclusively to work “are missing out on something. They come across to me as too stressed out, not relaxed. That’s not how I want to come across to my customers,” he says.
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