You probably here it all the time.
If you watch the Marks, the Alexs, the Bezos of the world.
Time and time again you’ll hear them say, “every entrepreneur will fail, some multiple times some only once”.
I’m not writing this to remind you of general sayings that you have probably heard of from your startup class in college or read about in books.
I am here to share my story so you can learn a lesson that I wish I knew earlier.
My First Startup
In 2019 I thought I had the best idea.
Something that would change the world…
It was called CliqueStudents (here’s a sick image of the homepage):
To give you a short, very short explanation:
CliqueStudents was a virtual campus platform that aimed to connect college students and student orgs.
My mom thought it was the coolest idea ever.
And for a second I thought even Steve Jobs would like it.
But of course with the way Junior year Miles was, he thought once you have an idea you had a startup right?
Something you can tell your friends at house parties or when someone in class asks, “what did you do this weekend?”, I could say, “oh you know worked on my startup.”
Pretty cool.
Little did I know that building a startup is more then just the name.
Don’t get me wrong I think it is defiantly important to have a catchy name that people can recognize.
But for some reason I thought with a business plan, a cool name and zero skills at the time, I could build this thing.
And become a millionaire!
Ha!
CliqueStudents failed because of my lack of skills at the time.
- Sales / Marketing
- Computer Programming
- Leadership / Management
Watch this video from Gary Tann if you want the full list of skills to build something.
I had none of these and I wish I spent more time understanding that I need to become proficient in one, or more.
To not only build CliqueStudents, but to be respected enough to get funding, attract a team that was passionate about solving the problem at the time or understand how it would actually make money.
Because that’s something that in college, we thought did not even matter.
Market = Problem = Solution = Money
The Juicy Takeaway’s
I don’t have all the answers, clearly I just told you how the startup I tried to build failed.
But I do now have an experience that most people in college or upon graduating should know.
Fail to learn.
College did not teach us that failure is actually the fastest way towards building anything.
Getting skills, being patient, listening or learning from more successful people, all great!
And honestly if you are doing that you are ahead of 99% of the people around because they don’t.
Trust me, we’re different.
But if you can:
- Take consistent action day after day (Hormozi Says, “If you can wait 90 days for a result, you can win.”
- Question things, why they are done the way they are done
- Communicate and share through content and to people (both in big and small environments)
Build stuff despite you not knowing how.
Take what you’ve learned from building and apply it to your next thing.
Repeat over and over.
Add skills, strategy and patience.
That from what I learned from CliqueStudents is how you build something big.
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