Corporate world grooms you for failure
Corporate: You're only as good as your last failure.
Entrepreneurship: Build lots, fail fast, fail often.
Early in my career, I was told that to be successful and corporate, you need to pass the blame so nothing negative sticks to you. "Build 100 bridges and you're a……"
15+ years later, still true.
I've been caught holding the hot potato in a corporate setting before. You know, where all of your technical and leadership support cancel out on a critical meeting last minute when delivering bad news.
The way she goes, lesson learned. Hurt the pride a bit but the pay is still the same.
Entrepreneurship
Build a product, market the product. If it doesn't sell, bring it out back and shoot it.
Build another product, market the product. If it doesn't sell, bring it out back and shoot it.
Repeat until you find the one that does.
There's plenty of evidence that supports this theory, which I'll get into in a later post. (read up on levelsio)
I'm adopting this method for my software solutions being built for Oil and Gas.
The following are products that will take one month to build. You'll hear me banging the drum on LinkedIn and meandering the Plus 15.
So follow along on my journey to fail fast and fail often.
Happy to chat.