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Even if there do exist 'political' entrepreneurs, they don't come at the expense of normal ones. Get users, make sales, and you will succeed.
by johnrob 13y ago
Even if there do exist 'political' entrepreneurs, they don't come at the expense of normal ones. Get users, make sales, and you will succeed.
- mindcrime 13y agoGet users, make sales, and you will succeed. That's the way I try to look at it. Nobody locally (RTP, NC area) seems to pay much attention to us or give us any credit, where when I look at what we're doing I can't help but think "What? Are you people crazy? Do you realize how fricking awesome this stuff is?" But then I have to acknowledge that I'm (very) biased, and that our focus should be on identifying, connecting with, and having conversations with, our future customers. Getting press mentions, getting invited to events, accepted into accelerators / incubators, etc., all those things ultimately play second fiddle to customers. IF the day comes when we have paying customers and are growing, then the accolades and attention will come. Or not. In the end, it doesn't really matter. If we build a profitable, growing, successful business, it doesn't really matter if we get any accolades or not. Although it does pain my "inner Tony Stark" to say that, as I really want to have a big "Fogbeam Expo" one day. :-) Net-net, I just try to remember "we haven't proven anything yet".
- olefoo 13y agoI'm always amused by 'entrepreneurs' whose focus is on getting funded rather than building a business.