The naked truth about a failed startup
Somehow I managed to create an application that seemed to be liked by a couple or three people. Fortune turned to me and found me an investor in the United States who saw my creation and saw something in me. He gave me a chance. I invested my money in me and my company.
Passed a couple of years. The company still holds, but already on the last legs. She lives the last days. I have comprehended a failure. It didn’t work out for me to develop my idea properly. It looks like I lost my skills and abilities. The money will run out in the coming months, and I will not be able to pay the bills. Everything will burst.
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I think investors lost faith a couple of months ago. They no longer contact me. They now do not even follow me on Twitter, and if they write to me, and I answer, I don’t receive any reaction to my questions.
It is rather rotten to live with the thought of the inevitable end. You know that another month or two, and your whole life will be dust. You tried everything, but it didn't work out. The end is near. And you have to live with it. This is a constant state of deepening depression.
When my family asks me how things are going, I, like all entrepreneurs, answer: "Great!". I have no idea how to tell them that everything is over.
Investors have almost run out. I do not have my savings.
I am browsing Hacker News articles about depression and entrepreneurs. Most of them are quite far from reality. There is not a word about the feeling of an inevitable end, about the feeling of failure. There is nothing about loneliness in them, in which there is no one who could pour out the soul.
I would just like, leaving, to give advice to those who are just starting their own business. Please think carefully before borrowing money. Even if I let down all my money, I could survive it. But when you get the support of a team of investors who believe in you, only then, in order to fail them, it is extremely difficult to put up with it. Try to develop and finance your own product as much as you can. At least until you make sure that the idea is really worthwhile (which takes not so little time).
Passed a couple of years. The company still holds, but already on the last legs. She lives the last days. I have comprehended a failure. It didn’t work out for me to develop my idea properly. It looks like I lost my skills and abilities. The money will run out in the coming months, and I will not be able to pay the bills. Everything will burst.
')
I think investors lost faith a couple of months ago. They no longer contact me. They now do not even follow me on Twitter, and if they write to me, and I answer, I don’t receive any reaction to my questions.
It is rather rotten to live with the thought of the inevitable end. You know that another month or two, and your whole life will be dust. You tried everything, but it didn't work out. The end is near. And you have to live with it. This is a constant state of deepening depression.
When my family asks me how things are going, I, like all entrepreneurs, answer: "Great!". I have no idea how to tell them that everything is over.
Investors have almost run out. I do not have my savings.
I am browsing Hacker News articles about depression and entrepreneurs. Most of them are quite far from reality. There is not a word about the feeling of an inevitable end, about the feeling of failure. There is nothing about loneliness in them, in which there is no one who could pour out the soul.
I would just like, leaving, to give advice to those who are just starting their own business. Please think carefully before borrowing money. Even if I let down all my money, I could survive it. But when you get the support of a team of investors who believe in you, only then, in order to fail them, it is extremely difficult to put up with it. Try to develop and finance your own product as much as you can. At least until you make sure that the idea is really worthwhile (which takes not so little time).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/170925/
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