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I was in a situation like this at some point. I wrote the following blog post from a now deleted blog: "You only need one Flash back to early 2008, it was th
by chegra 9y ago
I was in a situation like this at some point. I wrote the following blog post from a now deleted blog:
"You only need one
Flash back to early 2008, it was the end of my first interview after deciding to move on from my first start up, www.virtualstocktrading.com. I was fairly demoralized from what I had perceived as the failure of my first start-up(looking back I was actually ramen noodles profitable-- I wasn‘t aware of the terminology at the time) so much so that I express my disappointment in how it turned out in the interview. The interviewer said to me “You only need one to succeed”, and a smile crept across my face at a time when smiles rarely came naturally.
I smiled because this is exactly something I would have said if it wasn’t my start-up, and the statement is true. That statement is why I'm here trying again at my third attempt at creating a start-up, timeline-x.com [The second was pock.it, shout out to Odi, Tom and Mike]. My hope is one of these start-ups will shoot the moon.
The statement provided some much needed perspective; that in fact, I hadn't fail, only made my first try. I mentally glance over stuff I had learnt, the code base I had built and the contacts I had made. No VirtualStockTrading.com wasn't a failure it was a setup for the rest start-ups to come[Used some of my code in pock.it].
Hope if these words meet you in despair, they would do the same for you as it did me: “You only need one!”"