Ask HN: Advice on Startup Career (and Betrayals)
Long story short: I developed systems and processes - while in college for Comp Eng - for various small businesses and enabled them to bring in over a million in revenue cumulatively. I always planned on running my own businesses and as such, have been through a handful since graduation. I learn more and more with each "failure", and get farther on the next venture each time as a result.
However... These days, I find it very difficult to not only go through the usual routines of checking+responding to email, nonetheless actually improving or finishing my projects to see what could result (success?).
With the latest venture, my cofounders are attempting to leave me with nothing despite investing low 6-figures in capital and having legal share ownership (per a contract we all signed).
I can tell in my blood that entrepreneurship is what I want to do. I feel as though if I had a mentor who could use a (no self-brag intended) ambitious software engineer and thinker to build/empower projects, and we support each other in some way, that would be the dream. I know I’m capable of much bigger things than current, but clearly need mental repositioning and perhaps even a complete switch on what I’m working on.
Given the above, do you have any advice for a 20-something (nearing 30) that is tired and has been betrayed more than once in the startup game? A long read, I know. Have been trying to figure out my future path for many weeks now honestly. I greatly appreciate it.