The beautiful life of startup!

The beautiful life of startup!

When startup trend is praised so much in an area, it creates 2 main groups

(1) Daydreamers. If the startup trend doesn’t exist, people will have to try to fit the society or simply, fit their jobs because they have few options. But due to that beautifully praised startup world, they can easily give up their job since they think, “ah, this is not for me. Maybe I should try start-up because it’s different and easy…” [The fact that people start their own business is not new but when startup is coloured too much, it encourages people to do so more]

The dangerous thing is they may stick with the dream quite long because startup needs “little money to start, fast success and more importantly, don’t quit early”, people say (everywhere)

Looking at these daydreamers, we can see that startup shouldn’t be promoted as it creates a group of lazies who believe in an easy success.

(2) Action-takers. The startup trend, if communicated in a right way, encourages people to find solutions for problems in their society. That’s how innovation is born, I think. People are willing to innovate because 1- they know there are a lot of resources to help them and 2- they can make money and get recognized from it (Maslow chart never gets wrong).

To be action-takers, people should have knowledge and talents. Unfortunately, not many people get this (but many people think that they have).

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Obviously, the second group is what startup supporters want to create. But the 1st group is always much bigger than the 2nd one, which is very dangerous. The supporters know it. So why do they keep praising startup?

To answer it, let’s see who are they first? They actually are … anyone who will be enjoying the innovation that startups bring: government, investors, society, human being, … If just 0.1% startup can create true innovation that really changes their lives, 99,99% of failed startups are still worth. Yes, they care innovation, not about your failure.

I think the nature of creating innovation remains over years. Thomas Edison made so many failed experiments to create one innovation. Yes, we need many failures to create a true innovation. Start-up is just a way to find failures faster and then innovations come faster.

So it’s nothing wrong to keep saying:

-Startup life is beautiful! Go for it!

-What if I fail?

-Ah, it’s great! Failures need to come faster and then innovations will.

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So all you have to care is to create something really matters, something really innovative. Because people don’t care your failures, they just care innovation. Don’t do start-up if you don’t think you’re going to create an innovation. Once you do, do everything to ensure an innovation, even if it’s to change your own original beautiful idea!