Catch 22
I have been doing this startup gig fulltime for about 6 months now, and there have been a lot of ups, downs, and things that just don't make sense to me. The transition from an employee, to building a tech startup, is comparable to the process of going from a worm to a butterfly. If you stick it out, you end up becoming something greater than you were before, but it is a painful process. Your idea, your "baby", will get bullied before it even leaves the "womb". One of the many transitional processes that is extremely odd to me at this point, is the funding process. If you are new, you are viewed by the veterans cynically, as being "unproven", and more of a risk than they are willing to take. For example, one of my advisory board members has a few associates who invest in tech companies on a regular basis. The caveat is they only invest in founders who have had a previous success, or with whom they have already invested. I get it, they have worked har...