October 2010
Beginner
352 pages
6h 11m
English
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Chapter 20. If You Can Quit, You Should
Laura Fitton
Laura is the founder and CEO of oneforty, a Twitter apps marketplace, and the author of Twitter For Dummies. Oneforty raised $2.35 million from Flybridge Capital Partners, after completing TechStars in 2009.
I'll admit it; I'm addicted to my company.
I started oneforty as a 38-year-old single mom with no technology management background. I had never built software before in my life. In fact, I felt so thoroughly unqualified to pursue the opportunity that I started making phone calls to people that I thought could build the company for me. I simply wanted to see it come to life and I thought the best way was to recruit someone else to carry out the vision so that I could be an advisor to the company.
I had two very young, cute, reasonable excuses (my kids) why it was a bad idea for me to do a startup. I had no co-founder and I knew better than to do it alone. I tried to give the idea away and to get another group to do it. And when that failed, I quit. Well, at least I tried to quit.
I spent another four months trying creative new ways to quit the idea. I kept trying to find someone else to do it because I didn't want to do it myself. But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't quit.
I like to tell other founders that you have to be so stuck on your idea that you literally can't even quit. There are going to be a thousand times in ...
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