Right, good to clarify that discouraging and uninspiring advice from someone with a lot of experience in this sort of thing isn't welcome. In that case, my advice at the top should have been:
- *Quit your job. *Now. Carpe Fucking Diem. If you get to the end of this email without jumping up and shouting "I'm out of here to pursue my startup dreams" you're just not cut out for it as you'll have proven your lack of energy, passion and risk taking isn't up to being an entrepreneur. - *Move to the Bay Area. *Now. This is where it is at and starting a company anywhere else is a waste of your life. Visualize the success you deserve, truly deserve, and then go out and snatch it. There's money falling from the sky here - small companies that do nothing (Yo) raise millions and pin boards for homemakers to daydream with are worth over 10 billion dollars. The only real step to achieving your dreams is to get over to San Francisco and you're made. The investors will be impressed by your willingness to move across the world where you have no networks, no connections, no credibility, no product, no customers and no traction and were still brave enough to do it!! Crazy brave! That's what they're looking for - crazy brave thunder lizards!!!! Why shouldn't it be you? - *Dream big and don't let anyone tell you you're wrong. *You've thought about your idea a lot longer than them, so what would they know? We all know contrarians changed the world so going against the tide is a sure sign you're onto something big. The secret to success is to just keep going, no matter what, and you'll get there in the end - so taking outside advice and opinions on board is really just a sign for the weak who want an excuse to give up. - *Keep your idea secret and don't tell anyone - it is too valuable!* There are so many vultures out there with almost limitless technical talent resources and commercial experience and connections die for, but they're just unable to think of their own good ideas - and if you're not careful they'll steal yours. They hang out at the Grove and the Creamery just trying to overhead incredible original ideas and then steal them - the only way to make sure they can't is to never tell anyone anything. Seriously though, you've come onto a list and asked for help and advice and experienced people have offered to help. They could have said "another non-technical wantrepreneur trying with an idea for a tech business who thinks their idea is awesome and wants to know the secret in getting from underpants to profit; yet another deluded fool and wasting their life on something that will never get anywhere". But they didn't. And now I'm genuinely concerned for the next guy or girl who posts to this list and asks for help and having experienced operators like Geoff Langdale just ignore their request for advice because it isn't what someone wants to hear, because while they probably won't read your post and disrespectful response to someone answering a request for advice, the people who can help on this list will all remember it and the community will be the worse for it. Good luck. Geoff On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:49 PM, simran <sim...@dn.gs> wrote: > Good point Mike, although if i may, i'll give a slightly different > perspective (not referring to *any* of the earlier posts or with reference > to any person - my comment is solely a response to your statement): > > Encouragement is perhaps equally valuable if not more. Hearing an opinion > from anyone (and it is just an opinion albeit, sometimes based in more > experience) can be really valuable, it's always worth considering and then > discarding if need be... but if it comes from a really negative place > (egotistical, know-it-all, you have no idea, i'm the king of the world > types) then it's not even considered - and the person giving it has wasted > his time and the other person's time. > > It's *always* worth trying to understand the context the question is > coming from, and then responding in a way that can be understood. > > If after all, we *only cared* about "hard facts as we see them" (according > to our experience) - then each schoolteacher would be yelling at every > school kid all day... and i for one don't think that would produce good > results :) > > On a separate note, i think we can learn a HUGE amount from dog > trainers... you'll be amazed at how totally *positive* driven training > is... it's got there as positivity bought forth much better results... i > think we can learn a lot from that. > > Having said that, absolutely, one needs to give their opinion, factually, > unmasked and as they see it, but it *is possible* to do it without yelling > / screaming as that usually never gets the point across... :) > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Mike Gardiner <m...@limerocket.com> wrote: > >> Elly some of the most valuable advice will be things you dont want to >> hear and at these early stages you dont need to be inspired and patted on >> the back you need people telling you how it is. >> >> Cheers,Mike. >> >> -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. 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