Should You Keep Working on Your Startup?

Summary

Este video aborda la difícil realidad que enfrentan los fundadores de startups durante la fase inicial. Los presentadores explican que el fracaso es el estado natural de las nuevas empresas y que la mayoría de los fundadores atraviesan el llamado 'taller de las penas' (trough of sorrow). El mensaje central es un llamado a la persistencia: si tu startup no está funcionando, es probable que se deba a que aún estás en una etapa de experimentación y aprendizaje, no necesariamente a un error fatal. Se desmitifica la idea de que emprender es una apuesta matemática segura, enfatizando que se trata de un intercambio de riesgo por autonomía y agencia personal.

Topics covered

• Naturaleza del fracaso en startups
• Expectativas irreales de crecimiento

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Transcript excerpt

If you're basically doing money expected value calculations, this is not your game. >> Yeah, your math is correct. Don't do it. >> Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing the math right. Don't do a startup. Don't do it. >> Like that's totally correct. >> You're making a trade where you're giving yourself more agency for more risk. This is Dalton plus Michael. Today, we're going to talk about why you should keep working on your startup. So, uh set this up for us. Look, >> it's well understood. I think that um most startups die of suicide than homicide. And that running out of hope is the is the thing that causes people to give up. >> Yes. >> And so, I know a lot of our audience is startup founders or startup employees. >> Yes. >> And I like to think or they they tell me that um sometimes we inspire them to to feel fired up about what they're doing. And so, this is one of those videos wher…