The feeling of starting a company full time is difficult to define, your feelings from day to day, hour to hour run the gamut from excitement to despair, certainty to anxiety, gloom to happiness. I think that there is no better advice than if you are thinking about starting something, you should just do it. Rarely do people regret things they did in life more than things they wished they had done. Find a way to quit, you don’t really want to be working that job or slaving away at a degree that seems pointless anyway do you?
There is nothing more real than a startup, it is your ideas in action, it is taking success into your own hands and making it based on your merits, and it is more fun than you will ever have. You will always have excuses, always have reasons to say you can’t do it, but to make things happen you have to put those in the back of your head and just make it happen. Willpower is a motive force. It seems to me that a lot of people become successful simply by pointing themselves in the right direction and not stopping until they get where they are going, no excuses, just do it.
Truly. Do it. Also, do everything you can beforehand to ensure that you’ll succeed. Prepare.
lee
July 22nd, 2007
And there is no better time to DO IT, than in college. What other time in your life can you build a company without having any other commitments (family, full time job, mortgage, etc)?
And if you fail, who cares? You have the rest of your life to recover from it.
Great site!
Andy Drish
August 9th, 2007
First time reading your blog. Just had a look at this and the last few posts. Spot on. Looking forward to seeing more - now in my Google Reader. Best of luck with Sumon and Tim over the next phase.
langer
August 17th, 2007
Nice short post. Perhaps there is a little healthy self-affirmation going on here too? A neuro-cycle of positive feedback?
Good luck with your startup man, mine is taking off next year…
Sheraan Amod
August 17th, 2007
I could not agree more! The timing will never be PERFECT and we can always come up with excuses about why we “can’t” take action now. Your way of thinking is the thinking of a winner.
Christine OKelly
October 3rd, 2007
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