My Dying Words: Please, Someone Build Passdown

Ahh, another long day at my pc, building the Passdown company. After struggling through the weekend, attempting to fix a website problem. The thought kept crossing my mind to scratch it. Delet it! Get rid of the mother fucker! 

I lived through the local area swat team pointing their assault weapon at me on Saturday.

As much as they seemed serious, in all honesty, I was so depressed about so many things in our startup that, I didn't realize till I saw the photo that I was a target, and that one pull on the trigger could have silenced my life. I probably wouldn't have cared much. My dying words would have been. Please, someone build Passdown.

On Monday I did it. I deleted my old website and started building the new one. More problems presented and irritated me, yet it was looking to be a better site. I'm no designer and I do not have knack for it. It's another one of the many things you have to do, because your startup has no money to pay someone to do it. The list is long in this area! What is the saying? I can do all, but I'm not the expert in anything? Something like that. 

Passdown has a great team now. Wael, Jie, Tesmond, and I. Yet we all have day jobs and other responsibilities. It's super hard to build a startup in the beginning. That borderline of keeping the day job to survive can almost never be let go of. It pushes the entrepreneur to extremes. When can you make the choice to commit to the startup one hundred percent? You can't, unless you get traction or funding. Super hard to get either of those. That's another mountain we climb. How do we get traction? Well we can, without funding. So I don't worry about traction as much as I worry about getting funding so my team can afford to quit their day jobs and go on a journey with me. It's hell. It's worse than getting an assault weapon pointed at you. It's way worse. Traction seems to be our only answer. Traction won't be easy but if we can nab that without funding, than we will have put ourselves in the best possible position to succeed.

That cold hard bullet pointed at you. That's a startup. The risk we take may not be life threatening, but we are always on this brink of life or death. Most of our startups fail. So sad. That's the death part. The ones that succeed,that's the life part. Most of us entrepreneurs know the death part pretty well. 

The Startup Graveyard.

Seek traction, and don't worry about funding. The key is TRACTION. And that can be achieved with minimal funds and no funding.