Entrepreneurship is hard. You, the entrepreneur, can easily become your own worst enemy. In many ways it is a mental game far more so than anything else. The tech scene sometimes highlights the "built it over a weekend" stories. It is easy for the uninitiated to get a feeling that they, too, ought to be able to spin something up over a weekend or a few days and have success. The truth is that overwhelming majority of entrepreneurial ventures look far more like what Dave Gooden describes than the "look Ma, I built a business in seven days" crowd.
The other element of note here is that your business doesn't have to be sexy in order to succeed. There are plenty of people out there doing very, very well, with businesses that lots of techies would not even think of approaching.
And, of course, a big exit is not the only definition of success.
Entrepreneurship is hard. You, the entrepreneur, can easily become your own worst enemy. In many ways it is a mental game far more so than anything else. The tech scene sometimes highlights the "built it over a weekend" stories. It is easy for the uninitiated to get a feeling that they, too, ought to be able to spin something up over a weekend or a few days and have success. The truth is that overwhelming majority of entrepreneurial ventures look far more like what Dave Gooden describes than the "look Ma, I built a business in seven days" crowd.
The other element of note here is that your business doesn't have to be sexy in order to succeed. There are plenty of people out there doing very, very well, with businesses that lots of techies would not even think of approaching.
And, of course, a big exit is not the only definition of success.