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r/howtonotgiveafuck

Seppuku

Think about all you’ve learned

You can at least say you tried. Not everyone succeeds, it's damn difficult to succeed, but you can at least say you made an effort.

Laugh and be unfazed about it. Or speak up if it bothers you, your choice.

Did you get humulated? Or do you feel, you will be?

If its so easy to be a successfull entrepreneur- why is not everybody one?

You are in good company. I had some wins some losses but did it all my own. Many many others as well. As long as you didn’t lose their money they can suck it. Abe Lincoln had a failed business and came out ok (vampire hunter not president 😁)

What often works is to get a job, provide for family while saving up, then try again when there is enough capital to enable your experience to deliver success.

You only fail if you quit.

There will always be wins and loses. You can tell them you tried, and speak up if they're a bit annoying. After all, there's a lot of known entrepreneur who failed before their success. You can check them here, and hope it motivates you. Best of luck! Famous Entrepreneurs Who Failed Before Success

Failed entrepreneur? But do you still have a penny to your name? At least you have that.

PROVE. THEM. WRONG.

Anybody that has tried to start a business successful or not understands the pain of going through it and anybody that hasn't been through it completely underestimates it.

If my family members that have been through it were busting my balls I would listen because I knew they would impart some knowledge on me. But if it's just aunt Meg who attends PTA meetings and lives off the government I I wouldn't give her a second thought

you never fail until you stop trying, this is simply an opportunity, now you can see who the people who will be there when you're at your lowest are. i'm sorry its not your family, but at least now you know who to keep out of your will and who to not share your millions when you finally make it.

Family are awful, you dont choose them, and i dont know about you, but my family were constantly critical of my life choices - at some point you need to learn to ignore the base less criticism and filter only the criticism that is valid.

being an entrepreneur is one of the hardest things you can do career wise, the reality is the probability of failure is very high so the fact you didnt succeed this round is not even worth thinking about, just step up, brush yourself off and try again, walk your own path and dont worry what other think, it literally doesnt matter, dont take their criticism personally, at the end of the day, they aren't walking the path, you are, and its easy to point faults from the sidelines.

Try to understand why and how you went wrong. Go back out and do it again, and again until you succeed.

You have to get extremely spiritual. That’s it!! Nothing else works

It's tough. Usually lazy people don't get what it means to have success and succeed in life.

Don't argue or try to convince them. Success has many relatives. Failures remain orphans.

Ignore them. It’s your life. Live as you see fit. Don’t ask them for money, though.

Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.

Fuck 'em. Use their jeering faces as fuel for your success!

Screw them. People will always be negative and try to shoot you down. Just keep pushing and you will be successful. It's all about never quitting. you got this!

What kind of mean-spirited, unsupportive family do you have? Give us some context. Is this a cultural thing?

Fuck em. If they had tried, would you humiliate them, sounds to me like these people are toxic, surround yourself with nicer people.

It's part of the process and journey. When we fall, eat some lemon, take some hits, we get up, review the lessons, mope for 10 minutes and then move on.

Conversely if you do well, the situation will be opposite, but don't forget to review and learn!

“No one thinks about you as much as you do” some folks may ask or know. Just say, “it didn’t work out, on to the next stage”…. Most will not even care.

Last venture was an influencer marketplace. Like an amazon to book influencers for your brand.

Im sorry that your family is humiliating you, but based on this being your failed "entrepreneur" experience, I tend to think your family isnt actually humiliating you. Its likely they are telling you to get a real job because influencer isnt a real job and a marketplace for that is beyond one of the funniest business model idea ive seen in awhile. You are just feeling humiliated because they were right.

It is better to have a glorious failure, than dreams in your drawer.

Navigate the bad energy into the will to show them that you will be successful one day, people will always have things to say, the question is how you respond to it.

With every failure you learned a lesson, experience is the key for many things, including success. so maybe as an entrepreneur you have failed so far, but your knowledge and experience is priceless, use them, and one day you're gonna rock it! I believe in you!

I thought you said 85... Please log out, get back there and start something new. Lest you end up 50 years from now on the same spot, wasting your talent and precious time pity-partying on Reddit.

Tell them "Before I tell you to STFU, when was the last time you took a risk in life?"

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Now STFU."

Those that take risks will never mock or humiliate you - because they know what it takes.

Hate always comes from below.

Don't give up.

Use it as fuel.

Try again.

Because when you hit the jackpot, revenge tastes sweet.

At least you tried. And 35 is young. Get back out there and keep going. No one who is successful in life hasn’t experienced failure before then.

Some people will be extremely cruel to you if you fail, for any reason, and, maybe it's time to accept that they're the bad guys, and not you

Read up on Stoicism. I suggest:

- The ancient art of stoic joy (irvine)

- Dying every day, Seneca in the court of nero

- Man's search for meaning (Frankl)

- Thoughts of a philosophical fighter pilot (Stockdale)

-----> Basically, you separate what you can control from what you can't and focus on moving forward. Maybe read Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life.

You're young. My divorce started at 42, my old kids never wanted to speak to me again, my settlement was for essentially all my money (I would keep the house and $80K of retirement), my projected income after taxes was less than my total support. Yet here I am, at 47, rebuilt and moving forward.

You're 7 years younger than I was back then.

Get out there and rock it.

You can tell them that at least you tried to be remarkable. They even failed to try.

Moreover, let's improve your mental state with this list of entrepreneurs who made it way further in their lives than you are now:

Colonel Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken): Colonel Sanders started KFC at the age of 65

Ray Kroc (McDonald's): Ray Kroc joined McDonald's when he was 52

Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post): Arianna Huffington launched The Huffington Post at the age of 55

Sam Walton (Walmart): Sam Walton opened the first Walmart when he was 44

Leo Goodwin (GEICO): Leo Goodwin founded GEICO at the age of 50

Gordon Bowker (Starbucks): Gordon Bowker co-founded Starbucks at the age of 51

Robert Noyce (Intel): Robert Noyce co-founded Intel at the age of 41

Charles Flint (IBM): Charles Flint established IBM at the age of 61

Vera Wang (Fashion Designer): Vera Wang entered the fashion industry at the age of 40

I remember reading that successful entrepreneurs usually go through at least 9 startups before realizing the one that works. Problem is... even then, you never know it works. I have operated startups that threw out half a million a year... 100% felt like i would fail in the next month...

Win more respect by not giving up

Who gives a shit? Get back on that horse and start working on a new business model.

Keep in mind my favorite quote, by Teddt Roosevelt:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

You aren't a failed entrepreneur, you just haven't succeeded yet. 35 is still very young. Most successful business people took several times at bat before hitting a home run. You have time for many more times at the plate. Ignore those booing from the stands, who are rooting for you to fail. They are a sad, pathetic losers, who want you to be a sad pathetic loser, too. Focus on those who are cheering for you.

With family it is always about honour and money.

Read some of your comments. Your family are wrong. Owning and running your business is often far far more work than just getting a job. I should know, I work for my small family business and my Father who built the business has sacrificed far more than anyone I know.

Start another company

Of course I know him, he’s me

I tell this: I would like to be an example to my family. How to be me or how not be me. Pls wait.

May we know first how can you descirbe yourself as a failed entrepreneur? Some context here. Thanks OP