I had a dozen failures before I struck on the sass product that retired me in my forties.
You try, you learn, you improve, and eventually something might work. Or you don’t try, keep your safe job and work until you’re 70 like everyone else.
Interesting but also scary to go this route. I think part of the problem in Europe is also that companies/governments are less open to just try out new (startup) solutions. I would love to be learn from US startups how they manage to sell without much done already.
Thanks for this - I think there's something to also be said about too many people failing once and not trying again.
This could be for any number of reasons:
1. burnout
2. life circumstances (dependents like kids, parents or others)
3. time to failure - if you built a company for 9 years, you might have less time and appetite to start again (partly due to 1 and 2)
Life is uncertain, many things about our life are probabilistic. Risk management is central to many aspects of life. On HN a prevailing sentiment is on the luck of doing a startup (no doubt you do need luck!!!) but what about the farmer or fisherman? A disease or weather can wipe you out. Or a storm can kill you while you're out at sea.
> I think there's something to also be said about too many people failing once and not trying again.
Yes!
If you're an entrepreneur, short term failure is by far the most likely outcome. Successful entrepreneurs are the ones that keep trying until they finally hit on a success.
