This is how I explain it as well, it’s like being slapped and told you’re stupid every day and carrying on with no loss of enthusiasm until you get a win to take away the sting of the slap 🤣 that can be on any timeline you choose, years, months, days or minutes!
A founder's morning is "𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 '𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗅' & 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂". That made me laugh till I realized Bill had just summarized my entire career as an entrepreneur (a little too accurately)😂
That said, it was worth every minute. There's nothing quite like the feeling of building something from scratch.
If I had to do it again, I'd spend more time listening to industry veterans. You don't need to learn every lesson the hard way.
#startups#entrepreneurship#bebraveDmitri Chen
Sorry…but that’s the truth.
Being a founder is hard.
It’s extremely lonely.
You are working on something that no one believes in, that you've been told time and time again will never work.
It's you against the world.
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Doubts about your directionality arise frequently when things do not go according to plan.
Does the mission of the team make sense with me aligned with it?
Will my abilities be sufficient to address the needs of the community and tackle the true obstacle?
How am I going to make it big in an ocean where sharks rule the roost?
Being an entrepreneur is more than just flaunting your credentials; it is also more than just trying to outdo each other with investor cash.
The expectation of quick and easy gains in a short time is unrealistic.
The goal of the company is more than just making money off of sales. Make no mistake!
Take enormous risks to offer your unique product or service that addresses a problem no one else has considered in today's cutthroat market, where competition is fierce across all industries.
Thanks Marc Randolph for such amazing thoughts. This was exquisite.
Sorry…but that’s the truth.
Being a founder is hard.
It’s extremely lonely.
You are working on something that no one believes in, that you've been told time and time again will never work.
It's you against the world.
founder:- it's a silly word in my perspective, I think everyone is a founder we just have to look a bit deep inside ourselves, find a true passion for something, find what we personally like to work on as fun, ETC. Once we successfully find this thing for ourselves becoming founder is easy
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I would love to be posting more on social media, but this is why I'm busy. Being a solopreneur consumes so much of my energy. I fell asleep during the Steelers game last night and that was supposed to be my break to relax.
Finding your target audience is draining. Knowing who they are and engaging with them are two different things. SOOOOOOO many meetings with people with plans that have high hopes, but that will take time to execute. I needed outcomes yesterday.
New deadlines pile up out of nowhere every single day and I mean EVERY SINGLE DAY! Time doesn't exist to me. Milestones are now my measuring stick of progress. What's a weekend or a vacation? I no longer know what those things mean anymore.
Failure is a ghost that chases me in the background and haunts me every day. Success is a light at the end of the tunnel and is the only thing I focus on. I want to run towards it but there are so many bumps in the road. I speak to a lot of small business owners often and a lot of them give up, don't take their businesses seriously, or are spread thin because they are running multiple companies hoping one of them will be successful.
If you know a small business owner share their work, try them out, hire them, partner with them. None of them have the capacity for you to waste their time. It's a lifestyle with high risk, and high reward that most people can't relate to unless they live it themselves.
I always told myself that I hated sales. I don't like the idea of being a salesperson. I don't think I'm good at selling anything. This isn't my comfort zone, but being a small business owner has forced me to acknowledge that selling my idea or services to other people (even if it's in the form of a pitch deck) is absolutely mission-critical to the success of my business.
I'm thankful for every community I've been a part of along the way on this journey. My network is forever growing and that has kept me going.
Exit 2021/#3 in Deloitte Sweden Technology Fast 50 / 2x Di Gasell
1moIt’s all about solving the “oh fucks” and hopefully the sum of “hell yeah” is bigger then the “oh fucks” 🚀 😄