I'm there right now (minus the high-profile accelerator and funded part so I had even less success). It sucks. I'm exhausted. But I'm broke so I need a job. I can hack stuff together but I'm more of a junior level dev so not sure how attractive I am to a Silicon Valley startup.
I thought I knew what it took to be successful, so I quit my wall street job and drove out to San Francisco to JFDI. I even lived in my car for nine months to save money. It would be worth it once the business took off. It never did. So I started another one, which failed too. When you work non-stop, every waking hour for almost two years and fail at everything, you realize you don't have it all figured out. At all.
The scary part of failing is asking yourself, what the heck do I do now? And you don't know the answer.
Probably should have made this a throwaway. Oh well.
I thought I knew what it took to be successful, so I quit my wall street job and drove out to San Francisco to JFDI. I even lived in my car for nine months to save money. It would be worth it once the business took off. It never did. So I started another one, which failed too. When you work non-stop, every waking hour for almost two years and fail at everything, you realize you don't have it all figured out. At all.
The scary part of failing is asking yourself, what the heck do I do now? And you don't know the answer.
Probably should have made this a throwaway. Oh well.