Bravery Not Required
4 Mar 2019 · 1 min

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A speaker argues entrepreneurship is a series of small steps, not a dramatic leap. You answer questions about your idea's viability by taking the next step, adapting as you go.

A speaker argues entrepreneurship is a series of small steps, not a dramatic leap. You answer questions about your idea's viability by taking the next step, adapting as you go.
A lot of people ask me, and they say, oh, you must have been so brave to leave the grad school program or to make the leap. But the honest answer is, it never felt like a leap. It always felt like a next step. And it felt like the next step towards answering just a long list of questions. And I feel like that's a lot of what entrepreneurship is. So the first question for us was, will anyone even care about the this idea? And luckily, we found that YC did care. And then the next question was, can we actually get funding to grow our idea? And the question after that was, can we build an initial team to actually build the product? And can we actually grow a team to take the product to the next level? So really, this was just kind of a cascading journey of individual steps, but it really taught me that the most important thing is to just stay adaptable. And I think that people get so caught up in trying to figure out where do I want to end up, what is the best path there is this really where I want to be, when in reality, you can never really know, and the best thing you can do is just to take the next step to find out more information if that is true or not.

O processo de reconhecer limites, mesmo quando a vida parece exigir sempre mais.

Depois de tantas histórias, aprendizados e pausas necessárias, o @interior_iza está de volta