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December 9, 2011 10:01 pm GMT
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Should I or Shouldnt I? (start a business)
Editors note:James Altucheris an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book isI Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him@jaltucher.I cried the first day I was an enterpreneur. I left my great job at HBO to full time become CEO of the business I was running on the side. I suddenly went from working 30-40 minutes a day to working 22 hours a day.The first day I was there fulltime, I got the word: the $900,000 I thought the Wu-Tang Clan was going to pay us to do websites was out the window. Maybe it was never there. Ugh. And then Tupac's manager laughed me out of his office. I was a failure on day one. I cried over a slice of pizza. It was salty. When I was leaving HBO my boss there told me, "be careful, once you leave here nobody will return your calls anymore." And he was right. I suddenly had to enter a world of failure, flexibility beyond anything I had encountered, bribery, psychology, and the depths of human despair that I didn't know existed.In other words: the real world.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nQVqKWSjmGQ/
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