Confessions of an Entrepreneur
I was an entrepreneur once—from 2010 to 2012, to be precise. I can’t say my startup broke any records; in reality, it never took off. But it was a comprehensive and rewarding experience, during which I tackled the same challenges as every other early stage entrepreneur: designing a product, raising funds, hiring developers, managing developers, mar
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was obsessed with my business, with visions of selling it, making enough money to never work again. You can argue that obsession fuels innovation in our society. True, perhaps. But quite often, behind obsession is fear. And there was plenty of fear. Fear of what people would think. Fear of letting employees and investors down. Fear of failing and w
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For a long time, I harbored the belief that there was a yearning at the heart of entrepreneurial ambition, a tender dimension that no one wanted to acknowledge. Some spiritual aspect beneath the in-office yoga classes and meditation apps and selective Stoicism and circular thought-leading. How else to explain the rituals and congregations, the conf
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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amazon.com
The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.
If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and
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