As a founder, you have to grow a thick skin. You are responsible for all the failures, while success will be shared by everyone. The sooner you realise it is your responsibility to run the company, the more aware and stoic you will be about everything. Running a startup is not for the faint-hearted. The media is selling fake entrepreneur glorification. There is no work-life balance either. Most founders don’t end up getting rich either.
In short, there are more negatives of being an entrepreneur than the fluff media glorifies.
Unless you are aware that you are in your idea and enterprenuerial ride for the long term. Unless you realise it is very lonely at the top. Unless you realise the default outcome is failure and rejection. Unless you realise you are a lone man staying till the end. Please don’t start a startup.
If you ask me, why did I start? After working for 10 years, I realised I cannot work for anyone else. I had too many complaints about things around me. So instead of complaining, I took life into my own hands.