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EDIT: People keep asking about the definition of success. Success means you had a venture that was successful from your perspective. Whether that's a small business that generates enough income to replace a day job, or a million dollar exit. I don't consider a side project a success though, would need to be full time
I have had small business success in that it gave me and a small number of other people a really good ordinary income for 20 years.
I have never had a breakout success that accelerates to something much bigger than that, despite trying for a very long time.
But I haven’t succeeded yet, so I might not be giving the best advice!
The same idea with bad timing (rentry after a fantastic exit that I juiced with a condition to not renter the space for 3 years and a subsequent launch just prior to covid), never, because I'm not going to spend my own money on getting it off the ground again post covid.
I've got 3 things working now that are 10 years in the making if they ever succeed.
I tinker. Ideas aren't actually worthless like so many people say but the devil is in the time/space/implementation details.
I think the slowdown with ycombinator successea is exactly because they went hard in choosing teams over ideas when the ideas and their framing are in fact reflective of the teams.
Second/current one, dmarcdefender.io (2025), took maybe 6 months till I had my first customer, but now it's growing much slower. There's a lot more competition and still trying to figure out where I fit in / how to market it among all the competition. I was originally positioned as a security focused product, but now pivoting to more of a marketing/deliverability product. But to be honest not really sure where it's going, but still fighting the fight.
I'm not an Entrepreneur, but I will probably become fairly well-off, slowly by following the Bogleheads strategy.