Rarley Is The Key Word
On the startup road, such mistakes are an often occurrence that it kills me. I'm used to working for someone else and getting over the mistake period pretty quickly. In a startup, well, there is no mistake period! Mistakes are going to be everyday, all day long, for some undetermined amount of time. You can't escape it no matter what. You can't master it as fast as working for a long established company, no you can't.
I want to do a good job. I want to be the best at my job. So making mistakes are such hardship's on my soul. I want them to end quickly. I want the occasional mistake to be my norm.
If You Are Building A Startup, Mistakes Are The Brick Road
I don't know why mistakes can make me feel like such a loser or a fool. But they do. I think that's why I hate making them. Yet building a startup has taught me that a mistake is another brick in your startup road. You pave the road, then you can walk further. There is no other way around it.
My Silly Mistake Tonight
It was a small mistake, yet it really was an offensive mistake to me. How could I? How could I misspell the name of one of my most beloved mentor in the startup world? I've told myself a million times, "Don't mispronounce his name and whatever you do, DON'T misspell it" I added the c to Vaynerchuk! Oh damn, this hurts my company. There is no c in CHUK. I told myself this a million times, and still, I did it. I typed up the Tweet and sent it. Then I read what I wrote and as a tiny infraction as some may think it is, I thought it was rude, and not respectful to my mentor, one of the many who teach me how to be an entrepreneur. Damn.
Sorry Mr.
Mr. Gary Vaynerchuk, please forgive me. I'm a tiny person in the startup world. You and many others teach me, and I can't be grateful enough for all of you. Yeah, I'm gonna make a million more mistakes, some of them small, some of them big, and some of them the kind that seems no one can recover from, (those are the ones I dread) yet we all make that super big mistake. The one we think we can't recover from. But we can, can't we? There is never anything we can do that deserves the punishment of SILENCE or DEATH. Unless of course you commit a serious crime, and that deserves prison. Our mistakes, are not crimes, they are the bricks we have to place along the road, the startup road we build.
Trep Wear
The whole thing started because I saw this new startup getting ready to launch. @trepwear They have a super awesome idea. I did not gather enough information to tell you all about them, but I think they make T-shirts and other items that reflect startups, Treps, certain startups, and some of the cash they make on the items will be given to that startup, in the honor to help that startup raise funds to help them build great companies. Companies that will impact our world and lives. Yeah, that is a SMOKING IDEA. I love Trep Wear. And I hope you will too. : - )
The T-Shirt I Want From Trep Wear
The T-shirt I want Trep Wear to print, says: "Gary Vaynerchuk said, I had Balls" Yeah, that's right. It's a true story. He did tell me that. But he also totally kicked my ass and told me all the things I failed at, all the MISTAKES I made. Of course he was right. He told me off, but the one compliment he gave me is "I can tell you one thing, you have balls" Well, to me that is a very high compliment. I'd like to think I do have balls. I'm not giving up. I'm creating more and more startups and I will never stop. I will write with 6th grade grammar, speak like I'm a stoner, come off like a complete idiot, but I have balls! I'll talk to any VC, Angel or person who will listen to my ideas to make the world better, your life better, the life of someone at risk better.
I call my blog Long Shot Start Up Girl for two reasons. #1 I'm always looked at as a longshot or passed over. #2 The longshot pay off is....................?
So many turn away. It's the rejection that used to hurt me that now gives me BALLS.
Thank you Mr. Gary Vaynerchuk!
Vay.ner.chuk
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