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This lifestyle chooses you, not the other way around

Jan 05

AdityaPeople, Technology, World elevator pitch, lifestyle, People, startups, techcrunch 1 Comment

Truer words were ne’er spoken!

TechCrunch once again proves it worthiness!

Being an entrepreneur is also damn hard, for thousands of reasons and then some. I would like to point you to a testimony of that undeniable fact, penned by one of the founders of web startup MakeFive, whose Elevator Pitch video we recently highlighted. Eric Karjaluoto is his name, and his must-read blog post is titled ‘Why your web startup will fail‘. Required reading for aspiring entrepreneurs!

Here’s the gist, summarized in 6 points:

- You won’t have an audience
- You’re going to run out of cash
- You’ll get frustrated
- The emotional rollercoaster will beat you
- You’ll get excited about something else
- But it won’t be because of the competition

Read the full thing here.