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Every startup founder that’s been slogging it…

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“… Every startup founder that’s been slogging it out long enough will tell you “It never gets easier.” If you manage to truly find product market fit, maybe you’re no longer worrying about making rent; instead though, you’re worrying about how to negotiate a larger office, or how to fire your first employee, or how to sustain growth off an ever-increasing base, or how to make it home in time for dinner with your family.

“Starting a startup is fun. Sustaining a startup is grueling. Sure, there’s the off-chance you might sell, but that’s likely five to ten years out. In between, there’s countless sacrifices along the way. And if you’re among “the other 95%”, there’s all that same sacrifice only to ultimately wind down something you’ve put more into than potentially anything else in your life.

“Why on earth should anyone commit to this? Simple — because you can’t not do it. Because if you don’t, then who will? This reasoning is similar to the makings of great side projects. It’s not done for the fame, or the fortune, it’s done for the love of making something that might not exist without you.”

https://medium.com/@Romemike/the-biggest-trap-for-founders-only-three-guys-are-talking-about-8f2b0b517682

Use natural light Take what you get…

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“…Use natural light. Take what you get. Make the variability in your inputs part of what you create.”


“…take the path of natural light. Embrace the idea that the conditions will never be ideal, which of course makes them always ideal. Because the thing about natural light is that whatever it is, is.”


“You can make this choice about the way you make ketchup, your hiking & camping methods or the way you do photography. Less equipment, less repeatability, more engagement.”

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/11/natural-light.html

The initiator For each person who…

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“The initiator


“For each person who cares enough to make something, who is bold enough to ship it, who is generous enough to say, “here, I made this,”…


“There are ten people who say, “I could have done it better.”


“A hundred people who say, “Who are you to do this?”


“A thousand people who say, “I was just about to do that,”


“and ten thousand people who don’t care at all.


“And all of that is okay, because the person we need, the one we cherish, the one we would miss, is the first person, the initiator, the one who cares.


“Thanks for shipping your work.” — Seth Godin

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/11/the-initiator.html