Silicon Jungle

Photo credit: stocksnap.io      When you are a new entrepreneur, the fact that you have no track record, no "guarantee", (as if there was one of those, because in reality, nothing in business in guaranteed any way) that your big idea will pan out creates this cloud of doubt around your ability to make it happen. It may be a fantastic idea that needs only a "tiny" push to make it successful. When I say tiny, I do not want to make it seem like creating a startup is an easy task by any means, because it isn't, no matter how sound the idea is, it will require a lot of sleepless nights and hundreds, if not thousands of questions answered with cold, hard facts, before you can even have an iota of hope that your wild dreams will come true.      Some ideas on the other hand, require less justification, because the market is maturing fast and the demand is so well established, that even the most cautious of investors is comfortable with taking a dive into the deep e...

  Photo source by Nicole Martins Ferreira from Oberlo -  14 Jan, 2020 About two years ago, I started on my tech entrepreneur journey, because I truly believed I could make a difference, and wasn't satisfied with the limitations set upon me, as an employee. I ran into a few brick walls along the way, and almost gave up numerous times, before I had anything to show for the late nights and hundreds of hours of research and writing. No one believed I could do it, even my wife had her reservations, and rightly so, I had nothing to show for my effort, except for three failed business ventures, and being sold down the river twice, by two different scammers. A lot of adversity came my way in a short period of time, a lot more than documentaries on successful people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, portray. This may be because I came into the tech world relatively late in life, and am less of a genius and more of a dreamer with grit, who refuses to give up on the the idea th...