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As a tech entrepreneur your most valuable resource, and your only real currency at the beginning, is time. As you interact with more people with different background you will experience more or less frictions, this is normal. You have to focus your energy and time towards your end-goal. If your end goal is to become an Accelerator curator, then by all means continue blogging about incidents like these, and get testimonies from other entrepreneurs.

If on the other hand, your end-goal is to get your product up and running, and change the world, put aside that bad experience (which in retrospect, sometime down the line will look ridiculous) in your life and focus on building your startup. Tech entrepreneurship is a long unbeaten path for most, filled with rewards, setbacks, victories, nay-sayers, supportive people, and assholes. Save your energy for the trip.

There is nothing more draining than fighting with people ready to do things you are not willing to do. If it is any consolation (it really should not matter though), if they are half as bad as what you are describing, they will implode spontaneously sooner than later.

now, switch from that blogspot window to Sublime and carry on hacking.



Sometimes writing about it (publicly or not) can hone your thinking and get the thoughts out of the front of your mind. It can be therapeutic if done in moderation.


Very true, when i write about my bad or good experience i can reflect easily by reading what i wrote and learn faster, i also can know if i am "bullshitting" or saying the truth, if i keep the post and feel that yes i didn't change my mind after a couple of hours i publish it, or i delete it before publishing it.


There is no disagreement regarding blogging v/s not blogging. Your approach is sound. I made my point because i sensed that this issue will tend to eat at your time. And as an external, detached, party i said what i hope someone will say to me if i am ever in a similar situation as the one you described. It can be condensed to "don't mind the people being assholes, record your lessons, and move on".




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