Start-ups fail for subsidies

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My name is Slava Akhmechet, I am one of Rethinkdb's founders, RETHINKDB is an open-source distributed database designed to help developers and operations teams deal with unstructured data, which users can use as a database to build their own applications.

Why your start-up business failed

Jan 2014

A lot of cultural wisdom tells us that a startup has failed for countless reasons. For example, no one wants such a product; the market is too small; a pig-like teammate; the economic environment is depressed; the money is burnt out and so on.

These statements are all right, but the results are not the cause.

In fact, there are two reasons why a start-up company is dead, and for these two reasons people often ignore them:

• You know something is wrong, but you don't know how to deal with it.
• [1] You know something is wrong and you know how to deal with it, but because of your own fear you are not dealing with it in time.

95% of the mistakes I made in a company that I started in the first two years of my business were on the 2nd above. In the first few years I spent a lot of time crossing the fear of these mistakes, a period of extreme mental distress. After hindsight, it was also the process of creating a business that brought me some very good experiences, one of which was that I now have enough courage to come and solve what I think is wrong.

Of course, I'm still making a lot of mistakes right now, but it's more because I don't have enough knowledge to solve them-it makes me very mad. But at least it's not going to make me hate myself anymore. Because of my lack of knowledge and failure? Well, I think this is acceptable, because I know the problem is not enough courage to solve it and fail? It's going to be a nightmare for you all your life!

Let's look at some of the entrepreneurial issues on Quora:

• Should I not play with this class? My CEO partner has not raised any funds for us yet, and has not brought even the slightest user.
• How do I tell my partner that he is not a competent partner?
• Need help: How to deal with a very lazy and heartless employee?
• How do you deal with a heartless employee?

As you can see, the authors of these problems already know the problem, but they are not taking action! You know, in today's world, to do something you think is the right thing is actually difficult, is very difficult!

Everyone needs a certain amount of time to gain this courage. This is fine, as long as you don't spend a few years in it. The sooner you face your fear, the sooner you'll be able to surpass yourself. This is the only way you can get into the successful Grand Alliance camp.

[1] Another possibility is that you do not know that there are problems in some places. But the likelihood of such a cause is almost zero. Entrepreneurs are usually paranoid, and if there is a problem they can sniff it out.

Quoted English original: http://www.defmacro.org/2014/01/29/why-startups-fail.html
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Start-ups fail for subsidies