There is a hellacious amount of luck in startups. The best startup guys generally admit that it was luck/market that was responsible for a huge part of their success. Tremendous brains and a ton of effort is a big part of it, too.
The founder of Del.icio.us was at a YC dinner last night and talked about all of the miserable failures he had before Del.icio.us. Ev Williams had Pyra Labs' product before Blogger and Odeo before Twitter.
Failure abounds. Drink it in, learn from it and dive into your next one.
Or, if it makes you miserable, get a real job and some fun hobbies-- no shame in that!
The founder of Del.icio.us was at a YC dinner last night and talked about all of the miserable failures he had before Del.icio.us. Ev Williams had Pyra Labs' product before Blogger and Odeo before Twitter.
Failure abounds. Drink it in, learn from it and dive into your next one.
Or, if it makes you miserable, get a real job and some fun hobbies-- no shame in that!