I want to meet this guy. It's like I've got a clone of myself somewhere out in the world thinking, feeling, and saying exactly as I do. It wasn't explicitly sa

I want to meet this guy. It's like I've got a clone of myself somewhere out in the world thinking, feeling, and saying exactly as I do. It wasn't explicitly said but I got hints of the authors frustration with hype, the idea that successful startups only work in trendy SV, they all have the sexy cool factor, and the only investors worth getting funded by are the ones you read about on techcrunch. To the author I'd say I feel your pain. There's a whole heap of us out here in the Midwest, the South, and just outside the major metro areas that seem to get all the press. We've had the same ideas as others and we see them surpassing us daily knowing that if we just had that extra something we could be them and deserve to be. We quit our day job, work alone in our living rooms, can't find skilled people where we live and even if we could don't have the cash to hire them. But it's okay because TechCrunch isn't real life and these investors and founders aren't real people. They're like characters from a movie. You want to be them and they seem so realistic that you sometimes believe you can. That's a mistake. It's like trying to become Hercules or some other mythical character. It's covered because its a rarity and the myth is sexier than the truth. Some of us will make it but we just have to keep jumping ponds. Become the biggest fish in your current pond before moving on to a pond with even larger fish. Even though I generalized all the well known founders and investors and called them not real, I know they are. My point was to dissuade people from comparing themselves to people like that because it's often futile and results in more frustration than progress.