I Am Sisyphus
I usually don’t write like this, using my blog like a
journal, so I beg your pardon in advance. Today was rough. I don’t like losing
and I lost. An app I’ve been working on with my cofounders was in a competition
pitting us against 99 other businesses. We made it to the top 10. Today was the
pitch round to determine if we’d make it to the final round of three. We
finished third on one score card, fourth on the other. Needless to say, we
didn’t make the cut.
The kicker: winner gets 100k back towards their business.
One of the companies that beat us was a cupcake bakery. Fucking cupcakes. The
reasoning for the three advancing past us is that they are established
products, while we are in the development phase. I get that. We made it as far
as we did because of potential. Our concept is gold, but we just recently got
our programmer. Having a coder on our team eliminates our biggest expense –
it’s not the end of the world that we didn’t win the competition. It just
would’ve been nice. Oh, well. We’re going to push and push and push until we
break through the stratosphere. My cofounders and I are the modern day
Sisyphus. We will turn this into a labor of love – whatever it takes, as long
as it takes.
But I guess what I’m saying is right now it’s nerve-wracking
being fresh out of college, having moved to the opposite side of the country,
and chasing my dreams with reckless abandon – and it’s exciting.
Anyways, hopefully I’ll have good news to share next time I
write a journal post like this. Until then, keep pushing. I promise I will.
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