Top 10 Signs Your Startup Might Be On The Rocks
1. You only work on your startup on weekends
And weekends are when you are burned out from a 65 hour work week.
2. Your co-founders take the weekends off
And you work all alone.
3. Your startup has been a concept for “years”
You are either a person ahead of your time, or slow.
4. Only one person really works on it, the rest talk about it and suggest changes
Who’s product is this anyways?
5. Your developers question whether it can even be built
“I don’t think it’s possible” doesn’t work in startup land.
6. Your co-founders aren’t passionate about your product
When your co-founders want to work on something else, it can’t be good.
7. Your co-founders just want to copy an already existing product
Where’s the innovation in that?
8. Your co-founders are content with their current income level
If your co-founders are content with what they earn, what is driving them?
9. Your product has no revenue model
What are you crazy?
10. You can’t pronounce your company name
Neither can your customers.
Bonus: You just outsourced development to a foreign country.
Suggest your own reasons in the comments…
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Number three applies to several ideas I’ve had over the years. I never take the initiative to get something started.
The previous Comment was posted on July 23, 2007 at 8:35 am
Good post Chris, oh I got plenty of ideas, but no time…
The previous Comment was posted on July 25, 2007 at 7:40 am
11. You’ve removed vowels from your brand name to look cool.
The previous Comment was posted on July 25, 2007 at 7:54 am
nice
and also: I moved to Scottsdale to take a job doing U.I. design. It’s a good scene.
The previous Comment was posted on July 25, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Cool.
The previous Comment was posted on July 25, 2007 at 8:57 pm
In regards to #8: If you’re being driven by money, that’s just as bad.
The previous Comment was posted on January 17, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Good point Ben. Thanks for visiting.
The previous Comment was posted on January 17, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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