Christmas season is here and it is also the time a lot of “Love and Sweet” movies are released around this season.
One of my favorite “Love and Sweet” movies had always been “Pretty Woman”. Even though it has nothing to do with Christmas, I personally liked the story because it some how made me think “oh yea, this is the way love should be” and it gives me the “Love and Sweet” feeling. (I was still in my teens by the way)
One day, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about love relationship and I brought up about “Pretty Woman” movie and said
“I would love to be in a story like that”.
My friend looked at me and replied coolly
“so you are telling me, you want to find a prostitute, fall in love with her, then marry her?”
Since then, I stopped getting the “Love and Sweet” feeling whenever I watched reruns of the movie.
It’s funny that Start Up is quite similar to this. You read all these success stories about how those people who made it enjoy their success and many of them tell you money was never the major motivator. Then many of us tell ourselves that money should not be the biggest motivator.
Come on, be real and wake up.
It is true that “Pretty Woman” is a story about love but when you look at it carefully, isn’t it just a story about a prostitute fall in love and gets lucky?
It is true that starting your own company is about doing what you love and feel passionate about it but isn’t it all about making money after all (in fact, a lot of money preferably)?
What’s the message here?
It is good to dream about what your company can do for the world.
It is good to dream about at last you can leave the shit dead end job and do something you feel passionate about.
It is good to dream about how much freedom you will get once you start your own company.
But don’t forget, if your company does not make money, it doesn’t matter how big or good your vision is all about.
I know it sounds dirty and depressing, but the bottom line is, money should always be in the picture.
Otherwise, you are not realizing what you are dreaming about is falling in love with a prostitute.
2 comments:
i'm happy to see you blogging again. as a former lab tech who decided 5 years ago to go for a phd (big mistake), your posts were always spot on for me. good luck with your new venture.
Thanks Kevin. I also had an opportunity to go for a PhD about 4 years ago as well but decided not to and instead went for an MBA degree.
I am sorry your PhD journey did not turned out to be what you were looking for, but its never too late to change direction.
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