How Did You Get the Confidence to Start Your Business?
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How Did You Get the Confidence to Start Your Business?
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#2The insight for Tipjoy was that the worst case scenario was going back to fun jobs at big companies. Probably with a raise and a promotion too.
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#3I joined two other startups and realized that there's no magic to it, just a lot of hard work.
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#4I got my initial confidence through spectacular ignorance of the difficulties involved. Confidence grows as problems are solved.
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#5I got my initial confidence through spectacular ignorance of the difficulties involved. Confidence grows as problems are solved.
That describes how I got my start in music.
I wonder if there's parallels between child prodigies in music and in coding? I wonder if the labor of child prodigies might be some kind of untapped resource? (Early to mid teens. Maybe there's some black hat hackers out there like that?)
Perhaps best if this remains speculation forever.
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#6Simple really, risk vs reward.
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#7Don't take myself too seriously.
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#8When my mom told me I could do anything I wanted, I actually believed her.
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#9confidence is for marketing guys
you should make important decisions on the rational level, not the emotional level. You should weigh the risks and rewards in a rational manner, rather than running with what you feel. Feelings can be quite mercurial, and if you quit after you have a depressing weekend, or (sometimes worse) get in over your head and charge up lots of personal debit because you 'feel good' you can get in a lot of trouble.
Once you find that there is a positive expected return, keep making rational decisions.
But then, my start up isn't making any money, so what do I know?
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#10When my mom told me I could do anything I wanted, I actually believed her.
I modded you up for that, but someone else modded you down....
Self confidence is one of the largest indicators of entrepreneurial success.