Jun’s Startup Life

Hey VCs, I want you to…

The quintessential entrepreneur mistake:

I love fun and quirky ideas.  These two shirts were designed by StartupWear and VCWear.  There are a bunch of sites out there that give you a serious top ten list of mistakes that entrepreneurs make.  I am a huge proponent of advisors and mentors; however, there are just some things that you have to experience yourself.

When Yu-kai and I embarked on our startup journey, we projected that we would get funding within 3 months.  We actually thought investors meant it when they said that they were “early-stage investors.”  We looked around and saw a bunch of companies that clearly had no chance from the beginning and yet still go funding.  We thought, “Hey, I know it’s hard to get funding but our idea rocks and we can network our way into some funding.”

Boy were we wrong.  “Early-stage” investors doesn’t really mean idea phase.  They want to see a working Beta, traction, or at least a user base.

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I have ADD so I want to switch topics mid blog post.  There are A LOT of blog out there writing about personal or career development.  I have read through a lot of them and most of them talk about the same things, give pretty much the same advice, and some blog posts are just bad advice.  How does someone distinguish between good advice and bad advice?  Another question I have is: “Who is really reading these blog posts?  People who really need the career development help, or bloggers who are writing about similar topics that are trying to get more traffic on their site?

I have been part of the blogging community for a while now (maybe 6 months), and to be honest, I have yet to find a blog that I constantly keep coming back to because the author provides me with great, quality  “how-to” information.  I just don’t want to read “how-to” anything from a blog.  I would much rather read it from an article or an ebook.  The blogs that DO attract me are the ones that are very controversial, offer absolute opinions (hahaha, does that even make sense), or talk about relationships, sex, and attraction.

So now I’m thinking: “Should I create a blog that is super controversial, a blog offering my mild opinions, or a How-to blog on website consulting/career development?”

Stay tuned and find out