{"_path":"/commiting-to-entrepreneurship","_draft":false,"_partial":false,"_locale":"en","_empty":false,"title":"Committing to Entrepreneurship","description":"For years I've been very critical of all of my own business ideas. \"The initial build-out will take too much time.\" \"That won't scale.\" \"I'll never be able to find customers.\" \"I'll be crushed by the juggernauts in the space.\" I haven't allowed any idea to make it out of the idea phase. Starting today, I'm taking a different approach.","excerpt":{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"element","tag":"h1","props":{"id":"commiting-to-entrepreneurship"},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"Commiting to Entrepreneurship"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"For years I've been very critical of all of my own business ideas. \"The initial build-out will take too much time.\" \"That won't scale.\" \"I'll never be able to find customers.\" \"I'll be crushed by the juggernauts in the space.\" I haven't allowed any idea to make it out of the idea phase. Starting today, I'm taking a different approach."}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"I recently watched a talk by Pieter Levels about his journey to $2.7m ARR. I read his article about starting "},{"type":"element","tag":"a","props":{"href":"https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/","rel":["nofollow"]},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"12 Startups in 12 Months"}]},{"type":"text","value":". It broke my perception of what starting a business could look like. It doesn't need to be an impossible undertaking. You can start small."}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"I found this slide in one of his talks particularly fascinating."}]},{"type":"element","tag":"ul","props":{},"children":[{"type":"element","tag":"li","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"You need 100,000 people to buy a $10 product"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"li","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"You need 50,000 people to buy a $20 product"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"li","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"You need 10,000 people to buy a $100 product"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"li","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"You need 5,000 people to buy a $200 product"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"li","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"You need 1,000 people to buy a $1,000 product"}]}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"That doesn't seem so impossible, does it? That seems....achievable. A business doesn't need to become massive to be successful."}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"So, today I'm committing to launching some startups. My first idea (or first many ideas) almost certainly won't be successful, and I am ok with that. I'll go into each successive idea with more experience. With some hard work and some luck, I might be able to find some success. Wish me luck!"}]}]},"date":"2022-07-30","body":{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"element","tag":"h1","props":{"id":"commiting-to-entrepreneurship"},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"Commiting to Entrepreneurship"}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"For years I've been very critical of all of my own business ideas. \"The initial build-out will take too much time.\" \"That won't scale.\" \"I'll never be able to find customers.\" \"I'll be crushed by the juggernauts in the space.\" I haven't allowed any idea to make it out of the idea phase. Starting today, I'm taking a different approach."}]},{"type":"element","tag":"p","props":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"I recently watched a talk by Pieter Levels about his journey to $2.7m ARR. 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