6 Reasons Mothers Make Great Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs you hear about most often are men who make millions, or even billions, with a large company. However, statistics show that the majority of entrepreneurs aren’t rich, and they aren’t men – they are women, often mothers, usually working from home.

And it’s no wonder you don’t hear much about them. Mothers are a busy breed. They don’t spend much time patting themselves on the back and doing write-ups in the local paper for their clever idea to raise a few hundred a month during nap times.

Granted if the news that mothers are the largest group of entrepreneurs surprises you, you’re simply not paying attention to the moms around you. This is by far the best group for starting and running a business, especially one on the side.

Mothers Have a Mission
There are few mothers that loll about with those mythical bon-bons and soap operas. Most mothers have a mission throughout the day, week, year and decade and the idea of writing a statement about it is laughable. Women are used to making the impossible become possible and usually just before the school bus arrives. Creating a business? No problem.

Mothers Have Patience
Generally speaking it is the mothers who stay up nights with a fussy baby. It’s the mothers who wait patiently for those first steps. Or for the hiccupping sobs to end to figure out what the toddler really wants from her. Mothers might not like it, but infinite patience is built into the job, and they know after years of diapers and nights of last-minute school projects, that rewards do not simply arrive on your doorstep.

Mothers Are Workers
Only the select few mothers with a staff around the clock don’t wake up and fall asleep every day exhausted. Parenting is hard work and there are no set hours. Parents, mothers in particular, don’t get to end each day of raising children with punching a time clock or the satisfaction of a job well done. It’s work, it’s rewarding, but it’s most certainly still a real job to be a mother. Adding a few extra projects to the day is more the norm than the exception.

Mothers Are Networking Pros
Not only are mothers one of the most common entrepreneurs, they are also one of the most populous groups online collaborating, seeking ideas, sharing suggestions and networking. The natural network of most mothers, both online and off, is huge. As any successful entrepreneur will tell you, who you know is as important as what you do.

Mothers Multitask
Not a day goes by in the life of a mother when there aren’t multiple demands for her time and her energy. Each day starts with an overwhelming to-do list and it ends the same way, but in between mothers are a whirlwind of activity, much of which is overlapping. Dealing with the complexities of creating and managing a business on top of another career or full-time parenting is just another thing on a mother’s to-do list.

Mothers Know How to Dream Realistically
As a young person just starting out in a field of work, the dreams are huge and often unrealistic. He’s going to be rich. He’s going to have fancy cars and big houses in just a few months of starting up a business. Moms put those sorts of dreams on hold years ago.

They now dream of comfort and financial independence. They want fun things for their families and a safe place to come home to at the end of the day. Fancy cars might come in time, but the biggest dream most mothers have is earning just a little bit more to make more dreams come true for their children. And huge numbers of mothers are achieving this dream every day.