Comments on: Startups are easy

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The students write business plans, request startup capital from investors, receive funding for their companies, make product samples, manufacture inventory, …

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By: Ryan Bukevicz

Ryan Bukevicz — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:55:25 +0000

I can relate to this post in more than one way. You hit my trend of thought right on the head. Entrepreneurship isnt for everyone, it takes a unique mind to realize exactly what you write.

By: It’s official: I’m an entrepreneur « Robbie Allen's Blog v3

It’s official: I’m an entrepreneur « Robbie Allen's Blog v3 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:41:40 +0000

[...] There are lots of new things I have to deal with now that I never had to think much about before. But is it hard? Nope. I wouldn’t trade what I’m doing for anything else in the world. How lucky am I? [...]

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By: robbieallen

robbieallen — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:41:41 +0000

Unless you are in a bad situation, those are isolated events. And again, I think we are arguing semantics. The “hard” I'm talking about is of the unpleasant, not fun, would rather be doing anything but variety. Having an investor pop in and tinker may make things more difficult for you, but would you really consider it “hard” when compared to a job you just don't enjoy doing? Are those isolated incidents worse than having to deal with a job that you fundamentally don't like doing?

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:24:56 +0000

Robbie, nice post and I agree in principle with what you are saying.

I think that going to work every day and doing something you are “uberly” passionate about does help to make anything easy as it is so fun and exciting that it makes even daunting challenges easier. However, i think a lot of what makes a start up hard are the outside factors that are tough for the entrepreneur to control – marrying the right investor, timing the market, driving revenue, growing and keeping the team happy through growth.

I think any entrepreneur would tell you that working on the technology and doing what they love is so fun it is easy…but having an investor pop in and try to tinker with the strategy or having to stop working on the technology to focus on the financials and new business can indeed be hard.

By: Single Founder Startup: Using advisors as your co-founders « Robbie Allen's Blog v3

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:55:46 +0000

[...] Startup: Using advisors as your co-founders By Robbie, on July 19th, 2010 As I mentioned in my last post, there is a prevailing negative sentiment around the difficulty of running a startup. If you are a [...]

By: dstafford

dstafford — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:24 +0000

Looking forward to a future blog post: “Startups aren't scary.”

I've never had a physically 'hard' job (Worst was when I was a golf caddy). When I burned out 3 times in my career, I was always intrigued at the thought of going to a startup. I've stayed in big-corporate not because I thought it would be easier but because I was 'scared'.

Scared of financial risk, scared of needing to climb back up the ladder, scared of not having the right skills and scared that a startup aligned to my passion was nothing but an investment aligned to some VC's passion of big financial exits.

Good to know that once I get over my fear that it will be easy