I just found this post by the founder of Baremetrics and had to post here. Three great points:
- Don’t be an asshole
- Don’t make everything you do sound easy and seamless
- Everybody’s winging it ❤
I just thought it was so important to share here. It’s ok if you’re not doing well, it’s ok if you think you’re terrible and have impostor syndrome, it’s ok to feel bad and when starting a startup – everyone does.
Feel free to share if you constantly feel like a failure, if you feel like you’re not doing well enough, like things should be easier etc. I know I feel that way all the time.
Here’s the post:
I got this (unsolicited) email a few weeks ago from a relatively well known investor.
Is your company really only doing 45k / month?
It stung, playing right in to my own insecurities and the imposter syndrome I’ve been feeling lately. If anything, it echoed what I spend a lot of time thinking about: why are we only 50% of where I had hoped we’d be at this point?
It highlighted one of the hard parts of running a transparent startup: everything you do is up for scrutiny. Some (most) days it’s great. The pros far outweigh the cons. But on days like that one…it just didn’t feel good.
It also highlighted something that I think startup culture glosses over: most companies aren’t doing nearly as well as you think they are. It’s easy to look at buzz around a startup or a few high-profile logos thrown on a marketing site and think: “they’re crushing it”. Well you know what? 90% of the time that startup that you look up to, envy and try to mimic…they are in fact NOT crushing it.
But therein lies one of the core reasons we started operating as a transparent company: nobody wins thinking everyone else is “crushing it”. So, let’s clear things up. Yes, Baremetrics is “only” making ~$50k MRR and no we aren’t profitable yet (though we will be within the year).
My hope is that in the coming months we can be even more transparent with how we operate, along with our successes & failures. Baremetrics exists to help businesses and operating in a way that reduces hype and sets realistic expectations is a win for everyone.
Just remember: we’re all winging it.
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April 29, 2017 at 01:26AM
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