Confessions·Aug 27, 20156
I just found out I’m pregnant. I want to sell my company STAT. It’s slightly profitable and a strong brand. But it’s loaded with debt and I had to lay everyone off two years ago. I’m miserable & need to get un-broke. How the hell do you find a buyer?
Confessions·Aug 20, 20156
I run a sustainable tech co that has 60 people (overseas). I work by myself here in SF. I invested a lot + love the products we build + have promising metrics, but I feel scared to even talk about my startup to others. Anyone afraid to talk?
Confessions·Aug 19, 20155
I hate KPIs, even as a manager. Not everything is measurable, especially a fast paced objective. KPIs are cop outs from incapable managers that want to cover their own ass, that is all. Nothing hurts worse than hearing the world KPI in a startup.
Confessions·Aug 18, 20159
You told me you’d acquire my startup and that you were a mentor. At the 11th hour you failed to come through and now I have to pick up the pieces again because our team was stretched too thin and no one concentrated on sales. I’m the idiot here.
Confessions·Aug 17, 201513
Having to stay with female roommate who is very negative, and constantly is telling me my company will probably fail and never get funded and obviously doesn’t believe in me; after I finally made it to the official launch stage, to go into production
Confessions·Aug 13, 20158
I love nerds but I am not one, actually my social skills are excellent and I am pretty too, I am very sociable and extrovert, I love nerds and they seem scared to talk to me, I have tried to date one and he broke up with me saying I was too happy
Confessions·Aug 6, 201514
I own a small business that has ups and downs. We’re very small – like it’s just me – small. But, I average around $9-11k a month in revenue and have a wonderful amount of free time. About 3x a week I panic and think this can’t be sustainable?!
Confessions·Aug 6, 201513
I can’t find anyone else with the business idea that I am beginning to build, at first I was ecstatic, then worried. It is simple enough that I think I might’ve had competition, but now I cannot help but feel like there might be a reason
Confessions·Aug 4, 20153
People treat us like a real piece of shit when we request them to join us
Confessions·Jul 31, 20155
18 year old Cofounder of a startup, I’ve been trying to raise a pre-seed round and the amount of people ignoring us and not giving us decisive answers has literally thrown me into a pit of depression.
Confessions·Jul 30, 20153
Doesn’t matter if I fail or succeed… I can’t wait to write a book about some of the shit I’ve seen….
Confessions·Jul 29, 20156
I still have not delivered my Kickstarter rewards and I’m shutting down my company. The last 10%– the overseas folks. They paid ~$150 each but we totally miscalculated costs. They’re calling me a fraud. I did my best, but the $ ran out.
Confessions·Jul 24, 20159
It pisses me off that most tech startup media focus on getting investments. The goal is NOT to raise money, it is to make money. Stop begging and start building, it’s embarrassing.
Confessions·Jul 14, 20159
Sometimes I think I should have a sex change… A guy who runs the Venture Fund for a major corporation just knocked me out the running because I’m not interested in dating him. I think I’m going to just lie and say I’m gay from now on…
Confessions·Jul 5, 201520
My investor is too smart & too hot. If we weren’t doing business together we’d be boning all night.
Confessions·Jul 1, 201514
I have made so much sacrifice. I started my company with a 6 month runway, got burned repeatedly by bad developers, lost faith and confidence in my way of doing business… now I just feel hopeless as I’m realizing that I am going to be homeless…
Confessions·Jun 28, 20152
I have founded a company 4 years ago, bootstrapped and almost closing my 2nd seed round. It has been so stressful and feeling depressed. Every time this happens I just can focus on being with my family, and being very distracted and absence.
Confessions·Jun 26, 20152
My startup consults with other startups to make their business more disciplined and structured, but we haven’t really followed our own process since we started 20 months ago.
Confessions·Jun 24, 20152
I work for a startup – I loaded our past 10 job descriptions into that textio “buzzword” searcher, and found that if you remove anything about our culture, we instantly go from “corporate buzzword”/”masculine” (30) to a 90 – tripling the score.
Confessions·Jun 23, 20159
I lied to stakeholders that we have contracts worth about 20-40k – depending on who you ask. I have spent about $500 on the project so far, and in 3 months hoping to get orders of realistically around 1k if lies fail, else 50k+
Confessions·Jun 21, 20153
I had planned to create a business of my own but the situation and my study had postponed it farther.I am in dilemma to continue my study or start-up a business.
Confessions·Jun 19, 20156
As a startup CEO, I find you hire slow and fire fast, but boy does it pain me to fire people! Why do people bother to come work if they are going to treat it like an after school club?
Confessions·Jun 18, 20153
I maxed out my credit cards on my Real Estate Investment business education instead of my free energy prototype. Now I’m deep in credit card debt and have no way to build my prototype. My dream of changing the world is dying…
Confessions·Jun 18, 201518
My startup ruined my marriage – and I am now living with my parents.
Confessions·Jun 12, 201511
i get yelled at often by n00bros for “being here” + “spoiling their vibe”. i’ve been renting this co-working space longer than they have, have successfully closed funding & 100k+ users. i’m also female founder. #notallmen but wow
Confessions·Jun 11, 20156
I don’t think i can run a company until I can make it through a week without thinking about killing myself, but I’m already running a company and I don’t know what to do about all the people who are relying on me and expecting things from me.
Confessions·Jun 10, 20153
I’m closing my ecommerce business and there is $20k in debt to be paid. I should have shut it down two years ago but I thought I could turn things around. I still think I could but I don’t have the energy anymore. I no longer trust my own judgement.
Confessions·Jun 7, 20158
I’m having another sleepless night. I’m terrified I won’t be able to pay my bills in two months.
Confessions·Jun 7, 20151
I want to fire my co-founder. It just isn’t working, I work my ass off & put everything (including all my money) into it. He’s lazy and acts like a entitled employee. Someone offered him a job and he left for greener pastures. I couldn’t be happier.
Confessions·May 22, 20152