Who is Farhan Lalji?

Recent events have had me thinking a lot about my future and how to get there. For a second I was thinking about how I wanted people to describe me in ten or fifteen years time and was toying with the idea that it would be nice to be considered a serial entrepreneur.

So, I found Glen Kelman’s post on TechCrunch and Guy Kawasaki’s follow up yesterday really timely. In a nutshell, Glen argues that the second time around entrepreneurs’ success may be limited. Guy follow’s up with a dissection of the investment in second time rounders versus first time give-a-goers, concluding that guys under 30 building a product they themselves would use are the ideal. So, is there entrepreneurial life after a first success? Does the fact that you’re doing the entrepreneurial thing after having done the entrepreneurial thing mean that you didn’t get it right the first time?

Maybe the reason why the wikipedia entry for “serial entrepreneur” is so short compared to the entry for “entrepreneur” is that successful serial entrepreneurship doesn’t really exist. A little more digging around lead me to a post from Paul Kedrosky on “The myth of the serial entrepreneur” which he wrote over two years ago. Personally, I think there are such things as serial entrepreneurs, but a serial successful entrepreneur may just be a myth.

So would I still like to be considered a serial entrepreneur? Hopefully being considered an entrepreneur is good enough.