My new product goes into Beta Test next week (or for those of you
initiated into the ways of Lean Start Up: The Minimum Viable Product). After
all the work we've done thinking and re- thinking, testing, designing and finally
building the MVP you would think I am excited.
I am scared out of my socks.
I stopped sleeping about a month ago. Now I wake up and
think about the product. Usually at 2:06 A.M. I question every level of my sanity:
What in the world was I thinking. By morning I am less pessimistic, but still
rather saturnine. It takes a few hours to pull the manic back out from the deep
recesses of my depressive.
There are days I feel like the Wicked Witch in a room full of Dorothys:
I'm melting......
My wife did not sign up for this. She thought she was doing
me a favor when she agreed to let me spend all of our “rainy-day-fund” to start
a new business from scratch. Now she is searching for a therapist (I am not
sure if that is for me or her). I am quitting
when she starts to Google divorce lawyers!
But man I’m having a lot of fun.
It is hard work, and very risky to embark on building a new
tool for HR. But HR is an exciting space with so many things going on. Being in
the middle of that is what keeps me going. This product may not work – at least
not at first. But if the money doesn't run out and I delete all search criteria
for divorce lawyers: I’m there.
Now back to worrying so much that my headaches, my back hurts,
my stomach feels sketchy, and my neck has a serious kink: The true badges of
the entrepreneur!
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