I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
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Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#2I read your other posts - I think you're right to be terrified.
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#3Oh god. Don't do this. Don't go out like a meteor. It's romantic and exciting... and stupid. There's a time when every doctor has to look at the clock and call the time of death, and you have to do that for your startup. Remember the "be honest with yourself" rule? It's part of that. Be brave.
To give up is not defeat; it's rallying. Maybe at Accenture you'll learn your future customers, find something to enhance, or exploit. You don't know. But above all you have to be honest with yourself and why you wanted this: are you the driver and the company the car, or are you the car and the company the driver?*
*In other words, is the company what is trying to be delivered and you're just taking it there, or do you want to go somewhere and the company is the means to do that.
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#4I'm not sure I see the fucking point of using fucking swear words.
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#5C:\TAD\Text\WALDEN.TXT
-- "Make kneaded bread thus. Wash your hands and trough well. Put the meal into the trough, add water gradually, and knead it thoroughly. When you have kneaded it well, mould it, and bake it under a cover," that is, in a baking kettle. Not a word about leaven. But I did not always use this staff of life. At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none of it for more than a month. Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian cor
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#6I'm not sure I see the fucking point of using fucking swear words.
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Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#7Never give up, don't end your life. Failure is a part of life, we humans learn from our mistakes. If you ever read "Dune" or watched the movie "Fear is the mind killer." and it makes a lot of sense that statement.
I am 45, and I am having a hard time. I am flat broke, disabled, and 100K in medical debt. No startups want to hire me, nobody wants to help me, and I did a great job when I was working and did two startups of my own.
http://www.greatdox.com/documentaries/ I want to do documentaries on various topics because I faced a lot of stuff in my life and I don't want to see others suffer as I have, as I have seen many others suffer. Know that you are not alone. I have software I want to develop as well. http://www.greatdox.com/software/
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#8I read your other posts - I think you're right to be terrified.
+1
@zhamilton89:
You've written a lot where you identify as being an entrepreneur, but I can't find anything you've written on what you're working on. Your other pieces for medium seem to avoid answering this question. What is your project's goal?
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#9What's wrong with 9 to 5ing, learning more, and doing your own thing on your own time for a while. There's NOTHING wrong with that. Don't buy into the romantic notion that you have to give 110% to your startup or it's not worth doing. Pragmatism is ok. Pragmatism is not mediocrity. Don't confuse the two. There's a lot of hyperbole and rhetoric in the startup world. Don't buy into it. Plenty of startups have been launched (and done well) in people's "off time".
Re: I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
#10"To all of the people who say that the best thing to do is get a good job, buy a nice house, and to put the max into a 401k that the company will match: It’s not what I want. Mediocrity is worse than failure."
Cool. Then if/when you want to retire and have no savings, don't go dipping into my 401k. I'm 100% for you making your decisions and wish you nothing but the best. But when it's time to pay the piper, your kids are getting ready for college and you have to tell them you can't afford to help them at all, you live with that.
Obviously there's a case where you hit the jackpot and become insanely wealthy. I wish this for you, but reality is that it probably won't happen.
Live with your decisions, for better or worse. But in 15 years, let's not be having a conversation where you're whining about not being able to afford a house, or not being able to pay for your kids' college, etc. And when you go to retire, please don't vote for taxes being raised on my 401k to pay for your retirement.