My Fast and Slow Startup

In the startup world fast seems to be the name of the game for the winner. The one who makes their startup successful did it fast! All of us startup builders have this worry that someone is going to beat us to the finish line. So we have to hurry in what we build.

Yep, some unknown company has been building the exact same thing as us and they just happen to have a bit more luck and cash and that's it, we are toast! It's like Shakephears Much Ado About Nothing. We make a fuss about our progress because investors, accelerators and others do. It doesn't occur to any of them that we are making progress. We want the startup cupid to deliver! We want love splashing all over us. We want to show those who believed in us that we are in love. We are potential successful's!

Since we feel so strongly that our product or service is prime, we don't want anyone stealing that from us. Ugg, gulp, keep building super fast we do.

To me fastness made me hurry and sometimes make reckless choices. I've learned it's not fast that breeds success. It's either bailing early if the idea is bunk or staying the coarse, which is usually slow.

With Passdown it started out FAST. I hardly had the idea out of my head and I was sucked into publicly speaking about it. People were amazed with joy and made comments like "wow, I never thought of that". I was on some super fast roller coaster, and that ended in two minutes.

For many months since the start, it's been a slow startup. So slow that I wondered often, is this something I should build? I've gone to every dark tunnel of this startup. I found all the dead ends. Then I stood there and reminded myself that I'm only going to the next milestone. If I cannot take it to the next milestone than this startup is dead. I'll kill it and move on. I will not waste time on something people do not want.

The last few days has been great for my startup. Not publicly, but building wise. My brain finally found the answers to many problems that my startup faces. It unleashed all these answers to me in a pleasant, 'here you go' I shake my head in disbelief. All this time I have struggled with one big issue and now the answer comes. Simple it seems, but it's was the barrier I was facing, if I couldn't get over it, then this startup was to be buried. Now it has more life in it. Like a game, I hit that pinball point I needed to get an extra ball. 

I can keep playing this startup ~ 

Keep going down the slow road and you

will find your way out of the dead ends.

The investors and people will be

Much Ado About Something ~

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