Stop blaming other people, it will seldom help. If you succeed, it will be because you got out there and did the work and got in the right place at the right time. If you don't succeed, it will be because you personally fucked up. You can get that attitude, and accept that finding some way to succeed is your responsibility. Alternatively, you can blame your friends and whine on the internet about how it's so hard and the people around you are all to blame for everything. I have a feeling I know what you are going to do.
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That's more likely to happen in the US and the least likely to happen in Asia. There might be good programmers, but that doesn't mean they will be good founders or even want to be founders! The cultural mindset to become Enterpreneur is very high relatively in the US, but in general in Asia it is not, and it is expected that you work for a big company after you are done with school, the bigger the better. Even though…
Well that's very true in my situation here! Even some lecturers are so little minded in encouraging students into entrepreneurship. Yes, who does not wants secure safe job with big company, be a good worker and live happily. But.. It sounds like no more better life than after getting hired. Risk and failure that frightening good potential people away from being an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, shameful to say, I'm sur…
If you need an environment for motivation, consider relocating. Singapore is a nice option.
Another option is to go work for a startup, and after some more experience you will have a better network with other entrepreneurs and startup minded people.
I believe there are some startup groups in kuala lumpur too, try to hang out there.
Good luck
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Well that's very true in my situation here! Even some lecturers are so little minded in encouraging students into entrepreneurship. Yes, who does not wants secure safe job with big company, be a good worker and live happily. But.. It sounds like no more better life than after getting hired. Risk and failure that frightening good potential people away from being an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, shameful to say, I'm sur…
Many advice here will be from people who are not aware of the Asian culture, hope you don't get too depressed by their responses. The truth is that your environment does matter! Just read this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/06/can-indonesias-ciputra-prov... If you need an environment for motivation, consider relocating. Singapore is a nice option. Another option is to go work for a startup, and after some mor…
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#15My advice is to try to dissociate yourself from all the noise out there (all the get-rich-quick seminars, how-to-make-millions-on-the-internet books, work-from-home business "opportunities", etc.) and immerse yourself in the real gems of knowledge (e.g. blogs by entrepreneurs, Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc.) to get the right paradigm.
Second advice, get new friends. Go to local start-up gatherings and know people. Best of all, get incubated in a local incubator. Unfortunately, if you depend heavily on social validation and you're not self-contained socio-emotionally (i.e. you feel the need to "hang out" and "talk" to someone all the time just to be functional), which you sound like you are, I think this might be a painful change to make. If you've identified your current friends as a negative influence on your ambitions and personal objectives, you know it's time to discard them.
The truth is that your current friends are probably a dime a dozen. If you want fight the negative influence, the only option is to dissociate yourself from them, not to try to "manage" it or, worse, to try to change them. Start spending more time with your family instead to fulfill your socio-emotional needs.
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#16You are young and the world doesn't expect from you the knowledge and experience to be confident about anything. There are very few (if any people) who are able to be confident about such things. So just take it easy and believe in yourself.
And based on what I've seen, it's the people with no sufficient knowledge and experience who are usually confident. The more you know, the more things out there for you to consider. So, as I said, believe in yourself and never give up.
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#17First of all, it's nice to see Malaysians other than myself dabbling in entrepreneurship. As a Malaysian, I know what it's like trying to run a start-up locally; the environment is just too non-conducive, for various reasons I'm sure you're familiar with. My advice is to try to dissociate yourself from all the noise out there (all the get-rich-quick seminars, how-to-make-millions-on-the-internet books, work-from-home…
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#18I can't figure out a way to be both friendly and answer productively. Stop blaming other people, it will seldom help. If you succeed, it will be because you got out there and did the work and got in the right place at the right time. If you don't succeed, it will be because you personally fucked up. You can get that attitude, and accept that finding some way to succeed is your responsibility. Alternatively, you can b…
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#20First of all, it's nice to see Malaysians other than myself dabbling in entrepreneurship. As a Malaysian, I know what it's like trying to run a start-up locally; the environment is just too non-conducive, for various reasons I'm sure you're familiar with. My advice is to try to dissociate yourself from all the noise out there (all the get-rich-quick seminars, how-to-make-millions-on-the-internet books, work-from-home…
I'm Malaysian too.