Surefire ways to kill your startup before it, well, starts
52 games over the course of six years
That’s how long it took before the creators of Angry Birds launched their successful game from the verge of bankruptcy in 2009.
Turned down 25 times
That’s how many tries it took Tim Ferriss to find someone willing to publish his best-seller The 4-Hour Workweek. (And even then, they admitted they didn’t think it was anything special.)
Four years of failure
That’s how long everyone’s favorite “overnight success” Slack spent in online gaming before pivoting to the communication tool we know today.
Success delivers extreme value. Success is deliberate. Success is sustainable. Success takes change and hard work — sometimes, years of it.
Success is not built overnight. Neither were some of today’s most successful startups.
I believe you have to be a little crazy to choose the startup path, but you don’t have to fall prey to these myths that falsely promise…
