10 Reason You Should Join A Startup

In my wanderings around the net, I found an article titled "10 Reason's Why You Shouldn't Join A Startup" Oh that tweaked my mind into action. Of course I have to write 10 reasons why you should join a startup. : - )

1. You have nothing else to do. (That's me)

2. You love chaos on a daily basis. (Oh yeah, boring never works)

3. You don't mind getting paid a little here, and a little there, and mostly nothing at all. (how do us startups survive? Ramen.)

4. You love building something that most likely will FAIL. Because you know all good startups fail. And yet failure, is the strength that builds you, to be a better person that knows how to make your next startup work.

5. You love working your brain to the sleep deprivation stage, after all it's just like having a baby, someone's got to stay up all night!

6. Fear. Well that doesn't bother you. Oh fear it will fail, fear you will be fired by the VC's, Fear you are let go for no reason. Fear, Fear, Fear! It will never scare you. Cause no one can hurt you. You built something out of nothing, that trumps fear.

7.Stress.The startup stress is like no other. Yet you, overcome it effortlessly, because this is not the stress of being told to clean the toilets, it's not the stress of some horrible boss telling you how bad a worker you are when you know you are a good worker who mops floors. It's not the stress of of being bullied by a psycho boss, it's the stress of building something beautiful!

8. Building a startup is yes indeed a very hard task filled with a ton of agony, and relentless work, yet, it's the most satisfying work in life, because it's you, making decisions and creating. It's your work that will one day affect others.

9. The friends you make on your startup path, the people you encounter, the connections that blossom, the wild unbelievable things that happen, well, you would never get that from a regular job. 

10. You build startups because you are not afraid. You know that in every thing you build is a gift for humanity, and that is worth more then starving, struggling, suffering fear, paying bills, wondering if you should take that stable job offer. Yeah, this is it, this is how you express your creativity, you build startups!   



I'm not giving up ~ because I have nothing else to do ~ but create gifts for humanity ~