Comments on: What they don’t teach you in startup school

By: Jun Loayza

Jun Loayza — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:46:02 +0000

What do you love to do?

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:44:26 +0000

I’m loving your site. I’m trying to find a way to make what I love to do make money… pretty tough.x

By: Dania

Dania — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:24:47 +0000

Another great post! Actually I can’t stop reading your blog posts Anyway, don’t ever give up being an entrepreneur. You are one of the few that has the strong faith in themselves that you will make it. More importantly you are willing to do the hard work. I’m rooting for you, man!

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:23:29 +0000

Another great post Jun! I think I’ve been reading for an hour now about all your other posts!

Keep the dream a live. Your young, and can really afford to go for it all and lose everything. It might seem like a lot, but don’t worry, you have your entire life to make money, but you don’t have your entire life to take big risks.

By: ekta

ekta — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:34:05 +0000

Oh, I luv this blog Juan..Very well written. I hope I can do my best in Viralogy

By: Khalil Aleker

Khalil Aleker — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:41:33 +0000

One of the best posts I’ve read in a long time. True, Emotional, Passionate, and love for your work I feel through those words.

You just gave me more inspiration to carry on with my dreams… failure ultimately leads to success.

I’m glad I found this blog

By: Tolu

Tolu — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:27:27 +0000

well written article. I have found all of those to be very true from the experiences i’ve had since working on my ventures. If i can also add, a lot of young entrepreneurs tend to believe that building the startup and getting it to go live is the most difficult part, what i never learned till i actually experience it was that…advertising/promoting and converting random visitors to ‘customers’ or patronizers as the case may be IS often times (might not be always) the toughest challenge. Especially if you don’t have angel/venture funds backing you.

By: W

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:37:05 +0000

My theory is, at the end of this, money will be the least of your worries (it is in one way, it isn’t in another). It’s like at that saying, “What doesn’t kill you can only make you stronger.”

I suppose it’s like that person who once said their goal is to conquer the world to his fellow men working at menial jobs. He worked really hard and spend quite a bit of his life doing so. Unfortunately, he didn’t meet his goal of conquering the world. He just managed to conquer all of Europe! He still is quite angry at himself for not conquering the world oblivious to the fact that he accomplished way way way more then he ever would have if he choose an ordinary lifestyle.

My guess by the end of this, whether or not you succeed in being a Founder of a highly successful CEO, you’ll know way more about yourself and about the world then if you just sat still and did nothing to grow.

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:08 +0000

Thanks for the post and really appreciate your honesty.

With your mindset, half of the battle is already won.

At least you’re taking action now, knowing that action will create the clarity you desire.

If you failed, you have gained valuable experience of what works and what doesn’t.

But learn as fast as possible, just do the “wrong fast”.

It’s not about how many times you fall, but how many you’re willing to get up.

The question is: “Will you finish strong?”

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:40:12 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It’s really refreshing to hear things like this, because those of us who haven’t “made it” yet start to think “well maybe…just maybe…I can do this, too.”