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Oh I know, you can definitely end up doing a job that you enjoy doing - but it still comes second best IMO to being able to do whatever you want, when you want to do it. If I don't make a success out of myself running things myself then I'd at least look to do something I love/enjoy doing, even if it meant perhaps not earning as much money as doing a hard slog in a miserable corporate environment that I despised.

I think lots of people associate having a load of money with ferraris, fancy mansions etc, but they're not things that really do bring happiness. I got a nice new car when I sold my first company just under a year ago now, and yeah I enjoy driving it and it made me happy for a couple of weeks, it hasn't changed my life though - it perhaps improves about an hour a day that I spend in the car and that's about it. It also would never make up for not having good personal relationships, friends, family, etc. It's always a shame when you see people losing those things in an attempt to climb the career ladder. It's like sure - you now have the six figure salary, but when are you going to spend it? Who are you going to spend your wealth with? A hooker? Experiences and memories are priceless, and the only thing that anyone holds onto even in the last seconds of their life.

It's tech-based, if you want to know more send me a PM, don't really want too much info on a student forum.

Angel investor wise was a mixture. Met the first by networking, going to events and subsequently talking to people on LinkedIn. If you ask people for advice without being pushy they tend to be surprisingly helpful. You'd talk to someone and even if they weren't interested they'd often introduce you to someone else who might be, etc..

From there we ended up finding a contact high up in an investment network who helped with putting together our business plan and refining the pitch a bit, as he knew exactly what sort of things investors are looking for at the moment.

It's a numbers game I guess - the more people you get in front of, the more chance you've got of finding that person that'll give you the money you need. In the end you only have to convince one person that you've got a good idea and that you're the right person to do it (at least originally, anyway.. if you're looking to raise millions it's a bit different). Investors don't always invest logically too, they're just as prone to the human instincts that we all have, and will go after what's hot, etc too. (Just look at some of the recent big tech investments that leave you thinking.. Wtf?).. I remember the investment network guy telling me a story about how a company he helped to raise money ended up getting the money because they were doing something that made ski's to solve a specific problem. He happened to put him in front of someone who had that very specific ski problem, and the guy pretty much handed over a blank check. He was happy to put the money into the company just for someone to solve his problem so that he could get back into skiing, lol.

I'd always recommend finding a co-founder though if you want to start something - very few successful businesses have one single founder. Having a second person is infinitely useful when it comes to exchanging ideas, getting over hurdles and even just dealing with general stress / down days. The whole experience is a complete emotional rollercoaster. One day you've raised a load of money, getting some nice PR coverage and score your first customer, the next day your first employee wants to walk out the door, your servers are all crashing and getting anywhere feels like you've got a huge mountain to climb.



One word: freedom.

The freedom to know that tomorrow morning you don't have to get up at 6am, to go to work for someone else. The freedom to say "tomorrow I could move to Australia" and know you wouldn't even need to worry about money, or to impulsively go on that holiday to wherever, to see the world, and spend time doing what you truly want to do with your life.

I can certainly think of much better ways to spend my life than working 9-5 for the next 40 years, worrying about keeping up with mortgage payments and enjoying my one 2 week holiday abroad on the Costa Del Sol each year.

Mituozo what I haven't quite got so far, do you think anyone can do what you have done?


Tbh though, whenever I've done exotic holidays I found them a bit over whelming and not that great. I went to India and if you gave me the opportunity to go again I'd still prefer to go camping in Devon with my mates. What I do agree with you on is you need to keep doing new things and going outside your comfort zone or the monotony will waste away your life before you know it. However you don't need to trek all the way to Australia to do it.

Don't' mean this in a patronising/preachy way but what do people want to spend their money on that 60k a year is something to be sniffed at?

Is it all about retiring early, kids quality of life or what?

duuuuuude, remind me why you went back into education again?

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Apart from push-ups what are some things I can do at home with zero equipment?

Decided I'll skip today and possibly Thursday but then maybe just go Friday and the weekend so I'll just have missed one session.

Apart from push-ups what are some things I can do at home with zero equipment?

Decided I'll skip today and possibly Thursday but then maybe just go Friday and the weekend so I'll just have missed one session.

lol exactly what I thought.

@mituozo - you seem to be enjoying your life a lot more than others and doing what you want to do. Thumbs up to that, I'm still in my last year at school and going into university with no clue what i want at the end. A lot of people keep telling me to keep networking at uni, etc (I'm doing a maths degree which apparantly means im 100% working in finance) when, what you described is what I want but i dont know how to get there... in my eyes i've still got time whilst others are saying "you've got to think ahead and act now".... Yeah i'm confused.

Take part in the entrepreneurship soc at your university, virtually all the unis have one now. Be a good place to meet some like minded people interested in similar things.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lean-Startup-Eric-Ries/dp/0307887898

Is well worth a read too, if you're seriously considering starting something. School doesn't teach people enough about entrepreneurship/starting up etc, which is a shame really. You only hear about the very "traditional" career choices, which can make the act of going out alone and trying to do something yourself even more daunting than it should be.

In the end if you start something and it doesn't get anywhere, you'll still learn a lot and at least know you've tried it. Then you can give it another go later on / know it's not for you. At least then you don't live your whole life thinking "what if I started that business instead of going into xyz grad job" etc.. I mean if you start a business after graduating, it gets no where and goes bankrupt, what's the worst that can happen? You have to move in with your parents for a couple of months while you find another job? It only gets harder to start a business the older you get, because your appetite for risk decreases and your responsibilities increase. (e.g. if you get married, have a family to support, etc) The grad job will wait until after the business, and taking the initiative to start something yourself, raising finance, etc looks excellent on your CV, especially in a time when so many people graduating with degrees lack soft skills and basic skills needed in a business.

I'd finish your degree before starting out though, perhaps do some side projects/something small while at uni, because at least then you have the degree to fall back on. I'm in a position at the moment where I have to decide this summer whether to finish my degree and stop much of the work on the business or abandon my degree and stick to the business, which is tough.

Looks like Pat Mendes has finally been popped, along with another of Broz's lifters... so can we finally stop this nonsense that you can squat everyday up to maximum without being "on" now?