Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Mick Hunt interviewing Daniel Kang) in which Kang gives concise advice to early-stage entrepreneurs: (1) commit to a clear mission and keep working toward it, and (2) be honest with yourself about the effort you’re putting in — the biggest regret is not having given it your all rather than the outcome of failure.
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A lot of entrepreneurs, especially when they're in early startup phase, the energy's there starting out, but then they hit a hiccup and it's like, oh, boy, right? Like, how do you. What's the one piece of advice you have for them to get over the hump and stay over?
You know, whether it's this book or my fintech company or whatever, it's a very broad way and a broad stroke of working towards this mission. I would just pick that and then continue to sort of do it. The other, other couple of things that I would think about is don't lie to yourself. So you can pretend you work really, really hard or you can fake it, but you know deep down that whether you're working 100% or not 100%, and the biggest regret is not going to be based on the outcome. The biggest regret is going to be, did I give it my all? And if you didn't give it your all and you give up or it doesn't work out, that's going to be the biggest regret ever. So that's. Those are like, the two things I'd really consider when you start a company in your earliest stages.