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Ok, so I tried.
Did I try hard enough? No, I could have done more, sacrificed more, lost more sleep, read more articles, stressed out more but I didn't.
Did I take risks? some but not enough.
So, here is my dilemma . I was and am tired of my chosen career in construction. It is endless hours, angry arguments, broken promises and unappreciated nose-grinding. I am not getting rich off of this and I'm sacrificing my time with my family on a 10 hour a day job (not to mention countless after hours phone calls and emails) so I can live the slow-lane life. I read Fastlane and was inspired and then committed to starting my own thing.
So, I did. I had an idea for something to sell. I thought it was a good idea (problem 1: others have to tell you its a good idea and then make them hungry for it (problem 1a: Others are not family, family members lie)). Then from that "good" idea I decided to build a company to embody an ideal to sell that one idea. i was trying to push that ideal on people to try to be different, to try to
My idea you ask? I wanted to make a mobile game app based on a party game my wife's family always played. I wanted to bring people together and make multi-player mobile app games like "Heads Up". So I created an LLC, copyrighted my game name, paid freelancers to create an apple app of my game and create game and website graphics. So what happened after spending thousands of dollars? What happened after sending out hundreds of tweets and Facebook posts, spending on Google ads and iads and whatever venue? I sold 15 copies mostly to family and friends except for one little guy out there in China. No one wanted my game or my ideas. Game has been out there for 4 months. Most articles I've read say give an app 6 months to live. If no interest is found, trash it.
My mistakes:
1. I believed in the one game, not the company or its ideal that I created, even though it was a good honest ideal. I should have started small as a solo developer with the one game, then expanded if successful. Since having never programmed a thing in my life or had an entrepreneurial endeavor of my own i bit off more than i could chew. i jumped head first into the deep end of the pool and i never learned to swim. I hoped that the fear of drowning would make me learn the things I needed to learn to survive but I still drowned. In my next life I will learn to tread water at least.
2. I am too afraid to give up the false sense of security my day job gives me and my family. I make a comfortable middle class wage and have medical insurance that clothes, feeds and supports my children, my wife and myself. The ultimate slowlane speed trap. If I was on my own, if other people did not depend on me I would have given up everything to make this idea better. How do you break into the fastlane if you have passengers you have to bring with you and depend on you as the only driver?
3. I spread myself too thin, trying to do my 10 hour a day job, start a company and be a father/ husband. Everything got affected and everything only got 33% of me. mistakes were made, schedules missed and the stress built up to incredible amounts. How can you ride in the slowlane and the fastlane at the same time? teh answer is you can't.
4. I ran out of funding and didn't believe enough in my company to ask others to invest. I was afraid to ask to use other peoples money because they own a piece of you then
So I ask you forum brothers and sisters. How do get back on the fastlane? how do get out of this rut? how do I make something successful? how do I stop being afraid of the risks I have to take? my answers might be in what I have written but i want to hear from you.
with much respect,
Jimi
Did I try hard enough? No, I could have done more, sacrificed more, lost more sleep, read more articles, stressed out more but I didn't.
Did I take risks? some but not enough.
So, here is my dilemma . I was and am tired of my chosen career in construction. It is endless hours, angry arguments, broken promises and unappreciated nose-grinding. I am not getting rich off of this and I'm sacrificing my time with my family on a 10 hour a day job (not to mention countless after hours phone calls and emails) so I can live the slow-lane life. I read Fastlane and was inspired and then committed to starting my own thing.
So, I did. I had an idea for something to sell. I thought it was a good idea (problem 1: others have to tell you its a good idea and then make them hungry for it (problem 1a: Others are not family, family members lie)). Then from that "good" idea I decided to build a company to embody an ideal to sell that one idea. i was trying to push that ideal on people to try to be different, to try to
My idea you ask? I wanted to make a mobile game app based on a party game my wife's family always played. I wanted to bring people together and make multi-player mobile app games like "Heads Up". So I created an LLC, copyrighted my game name, paid freelancers to create an apple app of my game and create game and website graphics. So what happened after spending thousands of dollars? What happened after sending out hundreds of tweets and Facebook posts, spending on Google ads and iads and whatever venue? I sold 15 copies mostly to family and friends except for one little guy out there in China. No one wanted my game or my ideas. Game has been out there for 4 months. Most articles I've read say give an app 6 months to live. If no interest is found, trash it.
My mistakes:
1. I believed in the one game, not the company or its ideal that I created, even though it was a good honest ideal. I should have started small as a solo developer with the one game, then expanded if successful. Since having never programmed a thing in my life or had an entrepreneurial endeavor of my own i bit off more than i could chew. i jumped head first into the deep end of the pool and i never learned to swim. I hoped that the fear of drowning would make me learn the things I needed to learn to survive but I still drowned. In my next life I will learn to tread water at least.
2. I am too afraid to give up the false sense of security my day job gives me and my family. I make a comfortable middle class wage and have medical insurance that clothes, feeds and supports my children, my wife and myself. The ultimate slowlane speed trap. If I was on my own, if other people did not depend on me I would have given up everything to make this idea better. How do you break into the fastlane if you have passengers you have to bring with you and depend on you as the only driver?
3. I spread myself too thin, trying to do my 10 hour a day job, start a company and be a father/ husband. Everything got affected and everything only got 33% of me. mistakes were made, schedules missed and the stress built up to incredible amounts. How can you ride in the slowlane and the fastlane at the same time? teh answer is you can't.
4. I ran out of funding and didn't believe enough in my company to ask others to invest. I was afraid to ask to use other peoples money because they own a piece of you then
So I ask you forum brothers and sisters. How do get back on the fastlane? how do get out of this rut? how do I make something successful? how do I stop being afraid of the risks I have to take? my answers might be in what I have written but i want to hear from you.
with much respect,
Jimi
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