In a country far away from the tech scenes and Silicon valley. Everyone is trying to be the next Mark Zuckerburg (Well I think it’s the case everywhere… any way…). In the quest to becoming the next Mark, we find two types of entrepreneurs: the dreamers and the happy founders.
The dreamers
They are trying to start something in a good way (the hard way). They are following Sam Altman on Twitter and reading every article he writes about building startups. They’ve spent a lot of time talking to people and reaching their customers. They are trying to find a solution to payment (yes we still have problems in that), how they can deal with inventory, with accounting, with their employees… And the more important thing is: they are trying to solve a problem.
The happy founders
They are happy founders, and they start their company with something like:
Happy co-founder: we need to start a startup.
Happy founder: yeah I’m thinking about an idea.
Happy co-founder: let’s build Uber but for our country.
Happy founder: no there is a startup doing that.
Happy co-founder: what about instacart?
Happy founder: nope. Already taken… I think we need something like Medium.
Happy co-founder: Oh yeaaah!
And this is how all this start!
The happy founders are the people who follow TechCrunch and get excited by acquirement news and billionaires in tech.
The sad truth is: there is a lot of happy founders here. Why? Well because they get all what they want: invitations to talks, media coverage with catchy titles as the next big thing…
What I want to say to all happy founders. Please don’t start a startup just because it’s the trend, it’s cool and you make some buzz. If you want to start something, take your time and solve a problem.
Ahmed.
PS: Starting a Medium like startup is a bad idea, don’t try it happy founder!
