Brain dump of a wantrepreneur
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Brain dump of a wantrepreneur
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#2TL;DR: Soft focus melancholia dreams of showing up an ex and an expensive affiliate marketing "membership" don't magically make you a wildly successful digital nomad -- turns out you may also need to do billable work. PS. I have no money, give me a like on Medium.
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#3TL;DR: Soft focus melancholia dreams of showing up an ex and an expensive affiliate marketing "membership" don't magically make you a wildly successful digital nomad -- turns out you may also need to do billable work. PS. I have no money, give me a like on Medium.
Maybe she could have a look at her own blog; there are loads of tips on being a successful digital marketer on there? http://entrepedia101.com/blog/
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#4Most businesses fail, quietly. There's a lot of inspirational B.S out there that makes being successful look easy. I think people vastly underestimate what it takes to be successful. If there were as much written abut failed businesses as successful ones, there would not be such a huge wannapreneur fantasy industry.
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#5TL;DR: Soft focus melancholia dreams of showing up an ex and an expensive affiliate marketing "membership" don't magically make you a wildly successful digital nomad -- turns out you may also need to do billable work. PS. I have no money, give me a like on Medium.
Maybe she could have a look at her own blog; there are loads of tips on being a successful digital marketer on there? http://entrepedia101.com/blog/
That blog, unbelievable.
"Here is how blogs make money: Join this multi level snowball marketing system, like I did, and sell to the next sucker down below.
Btw. I'm broke now."
Re: Brain dump of a wantrepreneur
#6TL;DR: Soft focus melancholia dreams of showing up an ex and an expensive affiliate marketing "membership" don't magically make you a wildly successful digital nomad -- turns out you may also need to do billable work. PS. I have no money, give me a like on Medium.
Scheme she's peddling doesn't seem to work all that well for herself. Very sad.
Re: Brain dump of a wantrepreneur
#7TL;DR: Soft focus melancholia dreams of showing up an ex and an expensive affiliate marketing "membership" don't magically make you a wildly successful digital nomad -- turns out you may also need to do billable work. PS. I have no money, give me a like on Medium.
Ya. I'll also add there's a lot to be learned from embracing and observing your own 'loserdom' for a while. Entitlement begets its own correction.
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#8Succeeding as an entrepreneur in tech (for the first time) is nearly impossible. It's like winning the lottery. I don't think that anyone who succeeds understands (or much less planned for) even a small fraction of all the factors which led them to this successful outcome.
Of course when you've succeeded once, doing it again is easy - It's the first time that's hard.
I think the author is right to be afraid of starting a new project. Unless you know people who can fund you and/or help you secure deals, there is no point in starting anything - It will fail; it doesn't matter what the idea is, how smart you are or how hard you work.
Maybe intelligence and work ethics mattered 10 years ago but not today. Today they are practically worthless - Almost everyone is intelligent and hard working.
Start a project if you enjoy it, but don't expect it to pay off ever - The reality is; it won't.
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#9Succeeding as an entrepreneur in tech (for the first time) is nearly impossible. It's like winning the lottery. I don't think that anyone who succeeds understands (or much less planned for) even a small fraction of all the factors which led them to this successful outcome. Of course when you've succeeded once, doing it again is easy - It's the first time that's hard. I think the author is right to be afraid of starti…
I don't think it's akin to winning the lottery, but I do agree with you in that it's monumentally harder than, say, starting a nail salon. I think the difficulty goes severely under-appreciated on HN, where you have a whole bunch of founder-supermen saying that investment is counter-productive.
The tech sector is ten times harder than all other sectors with low barriers to entry, and bootstrapping is ten times harder than doing it without investment. Sure, once you've gotten over the experience hump like the supermen already have, you can start being picky about where your money is coming from.
But really, the knowledge base on offer here just isn't up to snuff for an inexperienced person here to learn what he / she needs to learn to avoid failure. You can fetishize failure all you want, but all that says to me is that the community is failing to give the people joining it the tools they need to succeed.
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#10"But learn the skill of forgiveness
Not for them but for yourself."
Then in the next sentence she says she'll never forgive "him".
A huge part of being both independent and successful is to constantly be moving forwards. Forgiveness is in fact emotionally "for you", but you need to actually let go. I see no indication that this author has actually broken free of any of the entitlement she lamented early in the piece. But maybe a whiny piece on failure is good for views? Everyone come and see the train-wreck so I can get some impressions!