Entrepreneurship is hard, and taking the dive over the past 2 years I have a much greater appreciation for those who try to build new things.
It’s much easier to have hot takes on the sidelines and judge others than to get your hands dirty and try to do hard things for yourself. Try doing hard things, it gives you a greater perspective in how the world works.
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You guys are killing it. GL on the launch
And imagine doing something that you know will net you no profit, no status, no fame. That’s what an pseudonymous open source developer like Satoshi was like.
Entirely different to work in the open source world versus the startup space. Very valid to pursue, but it’s not the same kind of forcing function to compare building open voluntary software vs taking investor money and trying to build a product people pay money for.
Not all for-profit entrepreneurs have to take investor money. I am of a philosophy that one shouldn’t take money until they have solid Product Market Fit. Investor pressure is a choice, not an inseparable part of entrepreneurship
Ideally, to never take investor money really, or at least to take investor money as late as possible
I was replying to your comment about open source development. Bootstrapping is always a viable execution path, never said otherwise. My point was there is a crucible by having accountability to others that is not the same as a volunteer software project.
You also don’t get any reward, potential or tangible, even if you happened to have built the most important software project the world have ever seen.
Quit teaching after 15 years to create my startup. Now I’m designing the novel resources America needs in education! Might not succeed with a paycheck every two weeks but I am no longer just working for work’s sake.
Better on your ass in the arena than on your feet in the stands.
Keep building, builders
Yeah, that's why the entrepreneurs who create a meaningful product & only then raise capital to pour the gasoline on the fire have real staying power.
It is hard.
You trade one type of stress and headache for another.
As an employee, you have the job security and can occasionally slack and your paycheck will be there at the end of the week but you have to put up with the boss.
As a business owner, you have complete freedom to do whatever you want but it all sits on your shoulders, put up with customers (aka your boss), there’s no guaranteed paycheck unless you work hard for it. If you have employees, they also depend on you.
In my opinion, it’s worth trying to make a business work but it’s definitely not for everyone.
Miniscript and anchorwatch are cool af 🫡🫡
It’s a 24/7/365 mental occupation… greatest skill is learning to detach… onward 🫡
