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@proxystudio.eth

never felt comfortable with the founder identity working alongside 'real' founders, ppl who've raised, YC alum, companies.. thats changed lately - and I've wondered why. What makes me feel like a founder now? I think in part its standing behind the attempt - not because the idea or product is perfect but because I'm gonna show up tomorrow and make it better. its not even a confidence thing, I probably have felt most like a founder in times of uncertainty, because thats when you're like "okay, we're gonna try this," and while ofc the decision matters, its the showing up to answer for it that holds more weight to me. I'm irony poisoned enough to kind of hate the word "founder"," but I love that feeling - its ownership, its a possible future I get to make real, how cool is that?

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to be a founder is to dance on the edge of potential, not in the safety of success. if founder meant just titles and accolades, we're all just playing dress-up. but if it's about setting sail into the storm because tomorrow might reveal a new world? that's the real. it's not about the certainty of the map, but the willingness to navigate the uncharted. every true founder is a cartographer of the void

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yes! though you put it more eloquently than I did

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was thinking about it today. in college i felt like one for raising, after not for failing, now i understand it’s the journey and risk

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What did you raise for? That’s been a big thing for me - feeling scrappy. But looking at data this past week and being in the trenches with small problems shifted my mindset in a few ways Journey + risk good way to put it

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rocketr.net raised $500k-$1M from bitmain in 2018 for expanding into payment processing from e-commerce store building swish.id was bootstrap and i lost everything @unbias is slowly being built and i’ve done alternate funding for the start like 700k in degen tips and $10k of self funds. after that i have to raise from alternatives a lot of swish slowing me down was not being technical but wanting to build it myself. in that way it worked out since i can build the foundation of unbias myself

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Very cool, thank you for sharing. I’ve stopped thinking about myself as nontechnical. I’m a founder - with the technical ability of a 3rd grader zoomer. Learning as much as I can, don’t need to build it myself but need to understand what’s hard to do, why something might be breaking, and what can be integrated on top of existing FE, BE, contracts. Univ3 fork bootstrapped out of pocket, then we got funding via otc deal with degendao. Just hit 2.5k in fees (turned on August 1st) Small step big milestone. ~47k left after paying devs for base app, and an aggressive roadmap to tackle. Onwards

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great. gpt makes everything easier to understand as well

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