Do you want to be the very best founder? The best there ever was?
The key is to figure out early WHY you want to do a startup, rather than focusing on WHAT to do.
Much like when we were determined to become the Pokémon Champion, picking any of the starter Pokémons doesn’t alter the result. Once deemed the hardest decision for a young gamer, actually mattered very little. What mattered most was our persistence.
Working as a VC, this is in fact the same formula we observed when differentiating successful founders with their peers. What these great founders actually do on a day-to-day basis have minor variance with other founders, they might check off a few more items on their to-dos and have a tighter packed schedule, but what ultimately places them in first class is the conviction that drives action and relentlessness to overcome any problems they encounter.
So how can an aspiring founder like us wield this power?
It all lies within self-awareness and self-reflection.
Founders too often dive head first into launching a startup because of some technology trend, what VCs are investing in, or potential exits. These reasons will only fuel you for the next 3 - 6 months before burning out, but in reality, any reward that is worth the risk of doing a startup, takes at least 7 years to accomplish. So we need to spend 50x more time thinking about WHY we want to start a startup, and really fine tune our trajectory carefully until we have a strong conviction with our flight path before launching.
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Next week I’ll be sharing “the best ways to accelerate growth as a founder”. If you have any questions or topics that you would like to voice regarding the founder journey, please comment down below. Otherwise I’ll catch you next time when I share the 2nd lessons out of this 6 parts series on the 12th of January!
Cheers,
Jack
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