What Few Treps Get To Experience: Success

Success in a startup build? I've never experienced it. Yes, I've had small successes in the builds. I've had highs and lows in every idea I chased. Yet, I've never had a FULL BLOWN SUCCESS. That never really concerned me. Sure I want it, but I had only one thing in my mind when building. To create the idea into a tangible being that others could benefit from. If I could do that, then I would have success. 

Over and over I read how few startups are successful. Almost all of them fail, they say. Hmmm, but do we really fail if we build the ideas which we think will help others? Products which others will want? I do not think we ever fail when we build. Us entrepreneurs are on the long road to find the gift that will help you in your life, be it a comedy app that brings a smile to your face or a place where you can jot down your life in a private journal. Us entrepreneurs are constantly possessed with the desire to find what you need. How can that ever be a failure?

I don't understand my new startup Passdown. The reaction people are giving me is so mind blowing. People like it. This is the very first time in all my years of building, that I have experienced this. It perplexes me. When someone responds with the magical joy with the look of a sparkle in their eyes, I just go stone cold. I freeze. I look around the room to make sure I am alive. Is this a dream? Why would people react this way? It's what I have always done, build. Chase crazy ideas because to me, they are all worth chasing. Yet, here these people get all AMAZING on me and I don't know how to take it. Because all I have built is failures. All I have ever received is just enough acknowledgment to please the other other person in not telling me the truth, my idea SUCKED. But they would never hurt me and tell me that.

With Passdown it is different. People are giving me their true opinion and quite frankly, I don't know how to respond. I'm in shock. For the first time ever, one of my ideas makes people SHINE. To me this is a SUCCESS. 

I don't know if Passdown will grow into a million or billion dollar company or become another skeleton in my startup closet.

I dream of it being successful, like I have of all my other startups. It's a nice dream. I do know that it's making people SHINE, and that pleases me greatly. To put a smile on a random strangers face is, the greatest success I have ever known. It's truly wonderful. So what, if I make no money on Passdown. The smiles on peoples faces is like no other gold. : - ) 

Thank you to all those who have given this smile to me. I build for you ~ always.