One of the side effects of insomnia is that you may end up dusting off your antiquated blog at 4:14 am. My previous post before the long absence was wishing Google, Apple, MSFT to cure my pain and build something grand for me. These days, I am taking a stab at it myself. The great thing though about running your own startup is that you will never have a boring day in your life. Every morning, you wake up to a new idea or to witness the progress of your idea.
The scary thing is that sometimes you feel like you are living in a “cloud cuckoo land” (my co-founder often use the phrase 😀 ). When that feeling gets in you and you try to react rationally, what is the best thing to do that comes to your mind? Going and talking to people! Letting people get you out of your cuckoo land!
Well.. I have to say that is oftentimes a humbling experience and is well recommended to both novice and seasoned entrepreneurs. However, sometimes that attempt backfires in your face when you find yourself in a room with entrepreneurs or rather “wantrepreneurs” who indeed do live in the cuckoo land. As a matter of fact, for every single visionary people in the startup space, there are a bunch of wackos. What bites is that you don’t know which one you are, neither does anyone else.
PS: Sometimes when you pitch to a crowd, you feel like Homer Simpson singing ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’.
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