Angel - Not A Bot on Warpcast

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Being an entrepreneur is hard You're given two opposing directives: 1) Manifest your vision, even when nobody else believes in you 2) Listen to the market and adapt to what it tells you When do you choose option 1 over 2? Nobody can tell you deterministically -- it's an art. Respect to anyone who takes this path

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I don't think you ever get to choose #1 over #2. Your company's survival is contingent on at least one market choosing you. That could be VCs, customers, or users. If you can't get buy in from any market to keep you alive then the time runs out on #1. You can sometimes sell cereal boxes like the airbnb guys but that only buys you a bit of time and you do need to eventually hit an inflection point even if just a local maximum.

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And if your vision is truly something only you grok you need to find even a fragment of the vision that resonates with some part of the market today. And then grind your way to fulfilling the entire thing one day.

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How do you do prevent capitulating on your vision via a series of small accommodations for the market? Sometimes what the market wants in the near term is antagonistic to your long term vision

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Personally (and after having gone through this twice), I would always pick #1. Not because it's the path to success, but because it's the only path that makes sense. Sure, you may fail. You may fail by following #2 too. But if you fail building your vision, it makes sense. If you fail by following the market or keeping your investors (temporarily) happy, why did you go through all this pain and effort? And if you succeed by #2, was this your dream? Maybe you will make some money, but if you want to make money, the most reasonable way is to get a well paying job, not try something that you have a chance of 1/100 to get even, even even less to actually make it.

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