Entrepreneur

Failed ? You Learned.

Become a successful one. Funnels and ecommerce my friend

Succeed, that'll show em.

Also, maybe take smaller steps. Market place for influencers is a huge first step, try just being a manager for a couple influencers and get them some work. Use the cash flow from that to fund prototype for the marketplace to bring to prospective investors.

You've survived to 35, how did you support yourself for the past 15 years?

If the answer is anything other than your own effort for the majority of that period, then I'm sorry, eat your humble pie and realize this may not be for you.

Failure is a step in the process.

Move far away

Pick it up and started it again

How do you usually handle disappointment and failure in life? I mean, this probably isn't the only time you've failed at something.

It happens. Try again. If people start acting like assholes, leave them and find new people.

Oi, also. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Keep on trying. Have you got an actual support network? Other entrepreneurs around you for insight? An incubator you can apply to? A coworking space you can work out of to be surrounded by others in your situation? No offence Oo, but f**k your family if they kick you while you’re down. Block that shit out.

Have you seen avatar the last Airbender? The Villan goes on and on about reclaiming his pride and finally his uncle explains to him that the source of his pride is his shame. Accept yourself as learning and growing and this shame fades. Rigid thinking is the enemy of growth.

Stop talking to them.

By reminding yourself that by trying and failing you have already done more than most of them ever will. Now pick yourself back up, dust off and get back to work. You start may be later but you will lap them all of you stay at it. Don’t be discouraged.

Become succesful

Prove them wrong

Keep going. 35 is young as fuck.

Try try again. Then let them eat humble pie. You define your own success and failure. Unless you are dependant on them for rent. In that case, suck it up, get a job to pay your own way and get that side hustle going. Research images of “path to success”. It’s falling down nine times, get up ten. Right!?

Determine if your family members are successful entrepreneurs you are trying to become. If not, laugh in there face and keep going.

Do you live with them? Do they pay you bills? If not, spend less time with them if they're not supportive. Tye negativity weighs on you.

Keep your head held high. If you fail, fail with dignity. Watch out for the next opportunity and be ready when it comes.

You haven't failed. Get up, try again. Failure is giving up.

Entrepreneurs don’t fail. They learn. Being an entrepreneur, failing is part of the journey. Take some notes on what worked, what didn’t… and move to the next best thing.

As far as humiliation goes, it starts with you. They can’t humiliate you if you don’t feel humiliated about it. Ppl can’t use your flaws against you if you embrace them. Sit down, write out 10 things you learned from you endeavor. Make a YouTube video and watch it generate passive income over the next few years. Share what you learned with others and embrace the journey. Some people would never have the courage to even step out into entrepreneurship.

Read 10x by Grand Cardone and understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to get it right. There is something that you don't know that caused the failure. Understand that family want to protect you from failures and they don't expect you to succeed, because they did not succeed themselves.

Also watch the Profit show with Marcus Lemonis talking about - People, Product, Process.

You got something wrong, you did not have either a good product, a good process, or good people.

Figure out where you failed.

I knew you were also Indian from the post lol

Ur 35.

“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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

Quote from a speech from President Theodore 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 do you.

Some people just claim to be successful regardless of facts. No humiliation that way but also no sympathy.

Prepare a strong rebuttal and be ready to use it.

This should include the fact that failure is part of the entrepreneurial process. Give examples of others that have succeeded post failure. And it may even include comments about how 'working for the man' makes you a cog in the machine succeptable to the whims of faceless corporate layoffs, etc. and how taking a 'job' and never taking the chance to succeed is the cowards path- Depending on how aggressive you want to be.

Then don't quit. Work until you succeed. Do whatever it takes to keep food on the table while building your business.

Good luck and keep going.

You're not alone. All four of my companies failed too. I'm working on the MVP of my 5th one. Wil it be a miserable failure? Maybe but right now I'm still grinding. Used to be obsessed with being perfect

First off I'm really sorry to hear about the humiliation.

What I would do in your situation if your still game is too get a job and work on your hustle part time.

It would be difficult since your probably not going to be able to dedicate as much time as you want but take it slow and don't give up.

And on the bright side you get your family to be quiet.

Anyways, if you have too change to a totally different market do it.

Keep going and don't give up despite the humiliation.

I saw a comment that said at least you tried, I definitely resonate with that. There's people that never will and don't care to try.

If anything it has made you a better business person and wiser.

What did you try to start? Maybe it’s related to the what more than the who or how?

Either way gaslighting assholes. Move on from them, there’s more to life than family kicking down.

Bro, you're an entrepreneur

Just keep going

What is the definition of an entrepreneur? I am confused.

Need new family.

At least you dared to try something, everyone talks shit when they are in an illusion of success. Their jobs would replace them in a millisecond if they died

Just ignore them. What kind of humiliation are they throwing at you? Maybe it's time to go no contact for a bit if they're overly toxic

Two things I’d say:

1/ who cares, family generally won’t understand you on this unless they themselves are business owners

2/ you haven’t failed until you’ve given up

You need a different mindset, respectfully. You get to choose how you feel. Your family might not understand your desire to be an entrepreneur, and that’s OK. Actually, what they think and believe is irrelevant. You have a desire to do your own thing as an entrepreneur, which may not be for your family, but you must “do you,” which means you need to get after what you are motivated to do. Another key point is you only “fail” when you believe and acknowledge that you have failed. You never fail as long as you have the strength and courage to pick yourself up, actively think through what didn’t work, and apply those learnings to whatever you do next. Your mindset is the key!! Also, when you surround yourself with like minded people they can be your support group, sounding board, and help keep you motivated, providing you with new ideas and thinking. Facebook Groups is great for this. Good luck!

IMHO, a true entrepreneur don't give a ....

Tell them to lay off 🤷🏾‍♂️ Identify jokes from insults, and determine your boundaries with what you're available to discuss with them. They don't have a right to humiliate you. There's a quote no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Find a way to become self-reliant or employed again.

Failure is relative, and it's part of life. Take note when people don't support your dreams and move accordingly. There's more life, challenges, and opportunities to come!

Find new family

at least you tried,

Cut them out. Be straightforward and tell them if they don't support you, thats fine, but if they are going to continue to humiliate you that you are not going to put up with it and will cut ties.

Wait what, I was a failed entrepreneur at 35 and they all knew it. Now I'm a successful entrepreneur at 48. And they all know it.

Guess what, it didn't matter then, it doesn't matter now.

BTW why do you think it's over are you terminally ill?

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