Comments on: The problem with the Internet startup craze

By: machbio

machbio — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:12:57 +0000

this is the story of life.. patience is king…

By: Accountants in Kent

Accountants in Kent — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:00:09 +0000

Very true, not just of internet start ups, but any new business.

You don’t get success overnight unless you are very good or very lucky.

Persistence, persistence, persistence, thick skin.

By: Jeff Weiss

Jeff Weiss — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:24:31 +0000

Hey man be nice! I meet a guy at Vator Splash about a year ago and his been pitching the same idea for 10 years!

Yes there should a stop point, but it shouldn’t mean a person has to “give up” on his or her dreams. A little re-tooling to match the times goes a long way.

By: Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:03:44 +0000

He should give Madeon a call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA&feature=BFa&list=FLnhc1tHh2pfeoFN5Oz3eZMw&lf=mh_lolz

Great quote. So many related thoughts…but I gotta get back to some hacking.

By: Mike Hodgkinson

Mike Hodgkinson — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:22:49 +0000

Of course MY startup is worth never giving up, but I saw a guy on Dragons’ Den (the original Shark Tank) who had spent 20 years developing a complex new musical instrument, kind of a box covered in buttons…when asked to play a tune he couldn’t…HE should give up

By: Jeff Weiss

Jeff Weiss — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:01:53 +0000

I’m in the Orange County / LA startup scene and there is a lot of this. People come to startup events to learn and part of the problem (I believe) is a lack of mentors to providing a “critical path” for new startups to follow.

They run from event to event trying to find that one event that will teach them how to do evenything, go from idea, to forming the company, to getting funded.

Unfortunately without the right road map they burnout and give up.

By: Anthony Wang

Anthony Wang — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:27:31 +0000

Many of life’s failures did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

By: @michaelreyes1

@michaelreyes1 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:14:13 +0000

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay said it… Steve Jobs lived it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:35:46 +0000

I have 3 kids 2 boys and 1 startup…. wouldn’t give any of

them up for adoption? Well maybe the 7 yr.old lol, And we

haven’t even launched yet! I love what I do and how much of

impact we will have in our space once we launch!

The conversion rate will be crazy! Keep this post as a data point.

By: Dan Cornish

Dan Cornish — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:26:46 +0000

This is very true. We started in 1999, lived thru the crash, kept plugging and we are now having our best year ever. I can not tell you how many people told me to hang it up, sell the company or do something different. Sometimes knowing you are right is the only thing the makes you different that everyone else.