Entrepreneur

It sucks bro, but you really just have to detach yourself from other people's opinions. Their thoughts are their own, you can't change them. You can try, but it's ultimately a fruitless endeavor. Even if you were a success there's no guarantee they would hold you in high regard, it's just your self-opinion of yourself would allow you to not care because you felt you had accomplished something greater than their opinion's worth.

Be convinced that you've learned. This lesson forges you for ever. Take it as it is

There is no failing unless you quit, if your not getting desired results means you need to evaluate yourself and do better.

Because sometimes your family is right, sometimes your just wasting time. If thats the case you have to do better

have you tried r/raisedbynarcissists

Don’t have family.

For most of us not born into riches, to be an entrepreneur usually means to work a full time job (or two) on top of running our own project/ business.

The answer to your question is really simple, how do you handle it?

You don’t.

You should be using it as incredible context to prove them wrong. Experienced entrepreneurs know that caring what people think ( about you) matters not. What matters is what you think of you. I can’t tell you how many times I was on the brink of giving up, what kept me going was my belief that not only can I do it, but that I SHOULD do it. Look at your life like a story- your family is making your story more interesting. They would be the antagonists of your epic tale.

Knowing nothing about your business (besides some comments where you describe it as a marketplace for influencers to connect with businesses)- if you have an interactive market place that has areas that are working- double down on those areas and eliminate the other parts.

Personally today I think to make it as an entrepreneur, you need influencers to sell (online product based businesses). I would be focussing on making small businesses aware of the benefits of influencer marketing. Maybe focus on the revenue model and eliminate up front risk for small businesses. ( most small businesses struggle with having lots of cash on hand to spend on something like an influencer.)

I hope you keep going!

What is humiliating about taking a bet on yourself? Hardly anyone ever succeeds on their first try of anything... Starting and building a successful business is extremely hard to master, there are many skills to master and few good places to learn. Be proud of taking it on, learn from your mistakes and grow from the 'failure'.

Keep believing in yourself. Someone is 35 and never has a job or tried anything with his life. Keep going. Head to the Sun

The only people who don't fail are those who never try.

You can tell them, all you need to do is succeed once. They can slave away for never having that opportunity

I’m 35, I have two failed startup’s in the past. It’s not really an old age, just keep trying. Have a job or side hustle that pays your bills and puts food on table. take all your past mistakes as a learning and forge forward with a newer problem to solve. Before you build, validate.

You can only fail once you give up. Did you give up?

Your family sounds like assholes. Sorry about that mate. Maybe shift to working a job for someone else to support yourself for a while as you do your next project on the side.

Did you give them a reason? Who’s paying for your living?

If you’re independent, there is always a room for skepticism from other people. And they may not understand it.

If you’re living with your family or they are paying for your living, then I’d consider them to be in right.

brother fuk em. Remember the attitude you had to adopt many times when you became an entrepreneur in the first place? that's what you should adopt. And you know what else? it's do or do not in life, there is no try. You should keeep GOING and WIN. Just be the guy who has all the things necessary to be winning in your respective industry.

Failed? You've only failed when you given up on entrepreneurship. Because one or two business ideas didnt work out doesnt mean YOU failed as a person. Just keep going and one day it'll all click into place.

Entrepreneurs are internally driven and overcome many outside influences to get any company off the ground. So why care what they say? Smile and move on. When you do get a business off the ground they will see it was worth it.

In silicon valley most successful entrepreneurs have had at least one failure. It gives you "street cred" in that you have learned something by going through the process even if you failed.

What is critical for you is to keep plugging away to start the next venture, or go to work, but don't let what anyone say keep you from doing what you want to do. If that happens, then you let them succeed.

I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that.

I know that a lot of people talk about not discussing anything work-related with their family/friends for this reason.

Your family probably has a lot of other terrible dysfunctions - again, that’s awful.

Use that burning feeling to get yourself up and [quietly] go out and win win win! Work to find like-minded people with whom you can talk in a way you clearly can’t with your family so you hae a bit of an outlet.

Failed? You had one failure. Or two. What have they done, just take corporate jobs? Are they actively humiliating you or do feels sense of humiliation because of the failures. Two different things. If it’s the first, steer clear of them for a while (unless it’s wife and kids). If it’s later, then it’s more about how you frame your failures and moving forward than other people’s perception.

Ignore it. Get back in the game. Get a job for income and keep at with a side hussle.

You’re not alone. Entrepreneurship is hard.

https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-experienced-a-time-where-bad-things-continued-to-happen-to-you-How-did-you-get-through-that-moment-in-your-life/answer/Evan-Asano

I have seen your comments about what you are doing, personally I don't get it, but there is a market for it then sure. I still think it is dumb and I see why your family mocks you. BUT with that said maybe getting a job isn't a bad idea to help you build up some capital to be able to put more money into advertising your company to get bigger contracts. If you don't want it to fold I am sure you will figure something out, and personally I don't have the balls to do something like this, so good on you for taking this leap.

Are you a failed entrepenuer? Or have you yet to succeed? Don't give up.

What is humiliation?

Don't give up and Be a successful one by 45. They will all then say "we always believed in you". Can't fail if you don't quit.

You need money to make money. Not just a little bit. A good amount saved up for a business venture. You can do it with very little it's a million times harder

There are a couple things wrong with your statements, first of all so what if you’re 35, people achieve success at 12 years old like that Ryan YouTube kid or 70 years old, age is an excuse. Also your saying “humiliation by family”- you need to stop caring what your family thinks, if you’re trying to succeed just to impress them that’s a recipe for disaster.

You only fail when you quit/give up.

Wake up earlier, work harder, work longer. Dont give up now, might be best to have a salary to pay bills while you work on your own business.

Before you run a business you need some skills, identify the assets you need to get going. Cant run a website without understanding some level of networking.

Cant run a business without some understanding of what keeps it afloat.

Pick a problem to solve, there are billions Get Money in. Find your starving crowd. Use Speed, the faster you get money, you get feedback, you can improve.

There would be no success without failure, the difference between winners and losers is: winners dont stop. They dont ever stop.

You can’t fail if you don’t quit. Sorry. Pick yourself up.

I needed to hear my say this too.

Failure is awful but quitting is the devil.

And your family is mostly there because they have to be. Not because they want to be.

I didn't even hit my big break until 36. Keep grinding away.

There is nothing to handle I am afraid. Let it go through you.

Easy. Sell your family members on the Dark Web to fund your next venture.

You’re not a failure until you give up!

Its only a failure when you stop. Ton of opportunities out there. 1 failed business does not define you.

Success is just failure turned inside out

You had the guts to take the hard road. Learn from it and move on

Why do you call yourself a failure? What went wrong? What is wrong?

Never admit failure. The only reason it didn't FULLY succeed is because it didn't have enough ground-floor support from so-called- ride or die family and friends.

You aren't a failure. You tried something bold and learned a lot of things in the process. Unfortunately, the business wasn't profitable and could continue on. But you, yourself, are not a failure. Far from it.

They are giving you the gift of showing you their true colors. Don’t waste any time on it, and if you must hear it, remember what they said. Write it down even. Use it to light a fire under your ass to blast through any walls until you make it

Success is not a straight line. Remember who believed in you before that, it will help a lot after

My first real job was at a huge company that amongst other things was one of the big 4 accounting firms from the US. Almost 200K employees at the time. They had gone through the Enron scandal and rebranded the whole company and branched out into a bunch of non-accounting things pretty succsessfully

The CEO came to my country for an event. Said he had been with the company for over 30 years, from very early on. He said he was not the smartest man in the room in most of his meetings, he didn’t go to an ivy league college, and his family wasn’t crazy rich or anything like that. He said that he kept trying to deliver even when things were bad and even as people were leaving the company, and that as far as he understood he was given the job because he was the last man standing: the only way to fail is to give up

You win or you learn

Write down who belittled your choices maybe even write what they said. Read it over. Plan your next venture meticulously and try again. Colenel sanders was old af when he started frying chicken for kfc

Pick a business you really want to succeed and keep that business model regardless of failing cuz you’ll get better