lessons in failure entrepreneurship is a journey through zeroes - typos fixed
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Lessons in FailureEntrepreneurship is a journey through zeroes
@liveink Nov 2013
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Why are we talking about Failure?
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Managing Your Own Psychology
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“By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology… It’s like the fight club of management: The first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown.”
http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-difficult-ceo-skill-managing-your-own-psychology/
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3 Things
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A. Two Different Camps Regarding Failure
B. My journey through the zeroes (failures)
C.My lessons learned
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Glorify Failure Camp
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/google-wave-eric-schmidt/
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Focus on Success Camp
In the world of entrepreneurship I think the most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is “I’ve learned more from my failures than my
successes.” It’s simply not true.
Joe Kraus, Google Ventureshttp://joekraus.com/the-lies-we-tell-ourselves
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My Journey
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• 4 Founders • 7 Employees • $120k raised
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• 2 Founders - 1 quit, 1 was fired • <1 Months runway
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• Let go of team in Korea except for 2 engineers. Both engineers eventually quit !
• Raised money from family to float the company !
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• $80K in personal credit card debt and 2 weeks from not making rent
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Lessons Learned
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Stop comparing yourself to other people (no one is perfect)
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Manage your highs and lows (focus on recovery speed)
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WHY do I want to keep going?
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Questions?
“The art of a relationship is all in the appreciation.”
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“It could be better, but it’s good enough.”