The One Reminder Every Dedicated Startup Founder Needs During the Holidays
A helpful piece of advice you should read before getting back to work on your startup.
For most people, the winter holidays represent times for joy, relaxation, family, food, fun, and so on. But, for entrepreneurs, the holidays aren’t always so enjoyable. For them, the holiday season often means annoying interruptions to their daily schedules and a general inability to make progress on their startups. Potential customers are harder to reach, investors aren’t taking pitch meetings, employees are on vacation. Simply put, entrepreneurs don’t like the holidays because the holidays make it difficult to get work done.
At least, that’s how I always used to feel during the holidays. While everyone else was celebrating the joys of the season, I was annoyed at people not responding to my emails quickly enough. Who cares that Christmas is at the end of the week, I would often think, it’s not today, so why aren’t you working?!?!?
In retrospect, the main reason I got so frustrated during the holidays was that, in my mind, startups were supposed to be hard work. They were supposed to require long hours doing all sorts of unglamorous jobs for very little pay. And it wasn’t just me who thought that. Back when I was building my…
