No more romanticizing about how cool is it to be an entrepreneur

No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” — Spencer Fry, co-founder of CarbonMade

Each time I read about entrepreneurship, I wonder if perhaps the idea may be oversold. The road to entrepreneurship is a hard one. It is similar to the stories of people winning a lottery. We are only aware of the entrepreneurs who have succeeded in life and made it big. However, the harsh reality is … Read more

Dealing with a risk of failure in the startup

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The entrepreneurial world can get slightly cruel at times. I can recall a fair few situations where things have seemed bleak and success has been hard to come by. Even in cases where I thought that the chances of failure are less, I have been proved wrong.

I guess such is life – we only have outcomes, our efforts and in hindsight a story of why things did not work the way we wanted.

If we are looking at a life with zero chance of failure, the utopia is probably much further from the truth than we are prepared to accept. And nothing ever comes from denial! – We can deny all we want, for all our life, but the results are the results – nothing beats the truth!