November 26th, 2011
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On these gloomy autumn days someone sent me a link with a sentence underneath “He who fears, he is a slave” – Seneca. Let me add to the above what Marek Kondrat said once: We cannot be afraid because we lose too much. Therefore to all the startup people building their companies struggling with their visions and hallucinations:
„He who fears, he is a slave”
A friend of mine wrote to me yesterday that he would like to set up a company, but he is not ready yet and he will still wait. Damn, I was never ready and I’m not even ready today. There are so many guys smarter than me that it makes my hair stand on end when I think how much this one or the other one knows comparing to me. I think you cannot get yourself ready for chaos, risk and failure. One can think about them and try to accustom oneself while they bite your hand. However if the only reason holding us from entering the game is fear (not health, family situations etc.) we have to jump in, because:
„He who fears, he is a slave”
I am watching crisis around us, watchin’ Polish politicans fighting for their next 4 years life. I am looking at Polish flag waving. I can see so many great startups around me, so many smart people, smarter than I am, than I can even imagine. I can see investors watching pitches but admitting that not having time for insight. All of these surround me. In spite of all that stuff around me I must say I am so lucky to be inside entrepreneurship world.
I need to admit that startups showed me what I love. Being in this chaos world I realized what is best for me as a human-being. Entrepreneurship shows what are my strengths and where my weaknesses are rooted. This is so obvious that I can’t cheat myself. So much self development insight from my life.
I feel in love in sales and marketing. This year I realized what is it. How it works. After all these years, startups gave me the best advice how to love sales and marketing. Startup should sell. This is healthy money.
There are no boring days when you entrepreneur, no back scratching and beer drinking with remote control in your hands.
I must say, I don’t know why I wrote all of this but I feel I have to….
