It’s truly good blog.. I didn’t had courage to quit my current job. I have some ideas which I think are quite revolutionary, but as you have said, I am blocked with the daily things of my regular life. But, I think I will surely try to start my company soon!!

Peace.

One interesting dynamic is if one founder is full-time and the other is part-time. In this case it becomes tricky in making everyone feel balanced in terms of shares of the company and such. However, some people are committed enough to say that “A chunk of the money I earn in my corporate job will be used to fund the company and pay for operations and other employees.” When a founder has such a large commitment, then things would work out. Again, the founder’s going to work EXTREMELY hard like Jun said and not live a super comfortable materialistic life, but just enough to not be a burden to others and stress about living. This takes commitment and is the mark of a successful entrepreneur.

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Congrats on starting your own company and having the courage to leave your corporate job! Putting yourself in the position of succeed or die is probably one of the best things you can do while you’re young.

How is Kino Wear going?

- Jun

I strongly agree with you on all the points you made. We would have never learned as much as we did or built our company to where it is today if it we didn’t do it full time. There are always ups and downs, but the lessons we learn are priceless.

For those people who are thinking about starting their own business, with a steady paycheck or job, there are so many lessons you won’t learn and so many moves you won’t make because you’re comfortable in your current job. It really is motivating when you have to build your company or die, you set yourself up to win. And if things don’t work out, it’s not like you can’t go back to a job if you need to, at least you took a shot at it. You have everything to gain because you learn things that you probably won’t ever learn without really being in the arena.

I really believe that working on your own business requires your full focus, energy, and time. But living off of your savings for awhile definitely does help, so I would say that’s a good idea.

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But this doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from each other. I read and listen to many more experienced entrepreneurs so that I can learn from their successes and failures. I want to do the same here for my peers and the next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs.

- Jun

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Thanks so much for your compliment. You happen to be one of my fav bloggers in the world!

I definitely feel ya on this one. I have a lot of entrepreneur friends who make their lives seem so glamorous. “I’m living a passionate life, unlike those corporate people!” Why so much hate?

We need people to be more real with everyone else. Yea I love what I am doing, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not struggling. I’m trying to demonstrate this to all those would be entrepreneurs.

Anyways, just a heads up. I’m going to start implementing video more and you’re probably going to be one of my first collaborations

- Jun

I have another friend who’s an entrepreneur, but he would never be as honest as you. He’s constantly trying to make his life appear as glamorous as possible to everyone — he wants his personal brand to be “the fun guy” (literally that is what he told me) — not that there is anything wrong with what he’s doing but he never admits to anyone the challenges he’s facing — he makes it seem like his entrepreneurial life is one glamorous party all the time, even though his company has no money. He gets pretty annoying sometimes…

Anyways this was a longass comment but my point is — seeing the difference between you and my other friend really made me appreciate your authenticity and honesty.

keep it up
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