The beauty of the startup game is that you only have to be right once.
The frustrating part is you never know when that one time might be! While we all love to hear Founders regale us with origin stories of their massive successes, what we miss most often is the part where they had many misses along the way.
We write those misses off as incidental — they aren't. Every one of those misses started with that very same Founder thinking that was going to be the time they got it right.
What we tend to misunderstand, most often early in our careers, is that there's rarely one single moment where it's all “make or break.” It's kinda like when we were in High School and we thought what happened at that moment was going ...