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Some years ago, inspired by the collaboration with 2 young entrepreneurs, I wrote a message for entrepreneurs which I shared on the landing page o this website and on the About section of LinkedIn.
For a practical reason (space!), I trimmed my message to be concise on those platforms. Jake Jun Kiat Tan recent post in which he talked about the Omniscient Founder Trap reminded me of this message I wrote, and Iโd like to share an extract of my original version.
โ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅโ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด.
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 1๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถโ๐ท๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด.
๐๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ โ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ, ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.
๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ต, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ-๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ, ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ โ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ.โ
Starting a business is one thing. Scaling it is a whole new challenge. It takes more than passion and ideas to grow, for success comes from recognizing the bottlenecks, having the humility to seek guidance, and the courage to ask for help.