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I've been in a place similar to where you're at now. Failed three year long distance relationship, debt, failed business. I spent the first few months post just rolling around in misery. At some point it became clear I had to make a choice to either get out of it, or just keep being consumed by it. So I did the only thing I know: I went back to building. I built with the goal in mind to see relatively near-term victories, as the prior start-up was a long build and failed with not much to show for it (other than experience). I wanted to start getting back into the winning column in regards to how things were going in my life, even if it was just in little ways, because I knew that would begin to lift my mindset. When you're ready, you'll probably begin to reboot. That's a process that takes some time, and is obviously different for everyone. Try to find your way through it as quickly as possible, and in as healthy a fashion as you can (find the happy medium). Feel free to be angry, upset, frustrated, depressed, down, the whole cycle of negative emotions, go through it all and flush it all out; don't try to not go through it, you have to go through it. My suggestion for the next thing you build: have it be something that makes money from early on and requires no outside investors; something that runs on a $40 or $80 linode instance, where you can become cash flow positive with just a customer or a few. Create something where your customers fund you, in other words. No more waiting for investors to say yes. The next time around, when you're ready, you'll say yes to them, if they're lucky. |