Startups Can't Live Without Vocal Entrepreneurs:The Voice

I'm watching The Voice tonight and wow, I'm always inspired by these vocal entrepreneurs. I can't decide on who to vote for. Love them all, so amazing. I always play music while I work on Passdown. Can't wait to add these young men to my playlist. I always feel sad as the show goes on week by week and great singers do not make it to the next round. I feel for them, as I know how not getting into that accelerator is so much like not making it to the next round. 

I've had many sad blog post lately. It's been a very hard December in my personal life. In my startup life, my team did not make the cut into Dreamit Philly. Dreamit sent an email that said they had received an unusually large amount of submissions this go around. 

After a couple of days of feeling bummed about not making it. I'm back working on Passdown. Of course all those thoughts of doubt had encased me all weekend and I was wondering if I wanted to continue this build. We are going to face constant rejection's. Building a startup is a brutal endeavor that often ends in failure. Not only are you solving a problem for people, you have to solve about a eleven thousand other problems just to get to the created product. This is what us treps do. We solve problems.

We also discover as we build. One of our team members Tesmond has seen another insight that Passdown can be, or added in addition to it. I love it. It's something I had not thought of but it's absolutely perfect for Passdown. 

As I had people come and go in my last startup, I never really had a team. However this build I have three beautiful extremly smart young men who want to be apart of this startup. I'm incredibly grateful and honored by them. I hope none of them go. As we spend time building while working our day jobs, we have a journey to conquer together not without extreme challenges, and a few hundred rejections.

Can't wait to see who win's The Voice, and purchase the music from all those who did not. They inspire me.

Keep Your Head Up Success Is Coming

The List Of People Who Don't Believe In Your Idea

It's A Hard Road Of Rejection To Build A Startup. 

Yet, I've read countless stories of the successful startups, and so many of them went through the rejection period of horror! It's way worse than dating, I assure you. If you think it hurts to be rejected by that girl you have a liking for, it really hurts when someone, treats you like you're a total piece of shit and your idea is worthless! Yep, you suck!

You see, you have spent countless hours, and cash creating your idea, and someone pays about as much attention to it as “Oh you wiped your ass today, who cares?”

I remember watching a video of the man who created Mint. I cannot remember the exact number of rejections he had, but it was something like 77 times. He asked 77 investors to believe in his idea and they all said. “No one is going to give you their personal banking information.” No thanks.

Think about being rejected 77 times! Would that not hurt? If you had asked out the same girl, or all different women 77 times and you were rejected by all of them, you'd feel like a fucking loser! Your mind would tell you all kinds of lies, to get you to believe it's true, you're a loser! Your idea is stupid!

This Is A Type Of Pine Tree. It Looks Messed Up. If You
See It In Real Life, It Is a GRAND Beauty.
So Is Your Startup
Keep Building!

So I created the list of people who reject me.

I write down everyone's name, and business. Then I add my comments as to what they said. Example: Name: Sleepy Profession: Ivy League business analyst. Reason: He called me stupid. You see, one day I'm going to pull that list out, one day I'm going to send each and everyone of them a gift. Thank you for rejecting me, you hurt me just enough to make me want to prove I could do it. : - )