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I just left my job to start my own company in San Francisco, and it has been a lot of ups and downs. I am wondering what others have gone through after taking the jump.

The common thoughts that occur when starting a company is that you made the wrong decision. You will identify all the challenges that you are facing and see all the gaps in the idea early on that make you question the decision. Meanwhile you will start to see all the positives in your previous job, the consistent paycheck the lack of stress etc and forget the negatives, which actually caused you to make the jump.

In reality, everything that you do has ups and downs, advantages and disadvantages so its not productive to spend your whole time comparing your current role to every other job you had. It is best to focus on the key assumptions that have to be true for your startup to grow and test those out.

All startups go through challenges, all startups make mistakes so do not feel that just because you made a mistake or that you are facing a problem that your startup will definitely fail or that you are incompetent. Its part of the startup journey!


Answered 9 years ago

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