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I am addicted to startups. I refuse to get a job, my clients all are my partners in one way or another, my own ideas are bubbling out of my head and spilling onto the floor where I feel like I want to ‘buy everyone a drink’ with startup ideas..

7 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Sep 27, 2015

Better find a job buddy. Everyone glamorizes entrepreneurship and startups far too much. If you're not solving real problems with your startup, what's the point

AAnonymous· Sep 27, 2015

+1

AAnonymous· Sep 27, 2015

If you are a true entrepeneur with any degree of (startup) success, you would know ideas alone have no value and having an excess of ideas can be a delusion in thinking you are a successful entrepeneur. Its a waste of time. Multiple ideas "spilling on the floor" signifies lack of focus and lack of depthful knowledge in any one idea to carry it to profitability.

Sacrifice and pushing an idea forward day & night, through all the stages, even when almost no one still believes but you, until its profitable (or not). Thats real entrepeneurship. Thats where the respect lies. Not in churning out ideas.

AAnonymous· Sep 27, 2015

+no doubt

AAnonymous· Sep 28, 2015

Laser focus... that's what I've learned. The true art of entrepreneurship is to learn to let all other ideas be sidelined for the one that paying customers want; everything else is a distraction.

AAnonymous· Sep 28, 2015

You left out some vital info:

1. Are you making any money?

2. Are you generating any value for yourself or anyone else?

If the answer to either question is yes, then keep on trucking'

If the answer to both questions is no, then get a job, your kidding yourself

AAnonymous· Oct 5, 2015

Ideas are worthless alone. Execution is where the genius is.