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- 1. Why Building Businesses is Lit But Hard At The Same Time 🙅 Peter Piekarczyk Forge November 2019
- 2. PIES • CARS • CHICKS
- 6. Peter Piekarczyk • University of Illinois Alumni • Y Combinator Alumni • Co-Founder of Draftbit • Co-Founder of ChicagoJS • “Serial Entrepreneur” • I like plants (@petersplantss)
- 7. Starting a company is really hard
- 9. You’re never sure if you’re doing things correctly
- 10. Your friends are making $$$$ at super cushy corporate jobs
- 12. Nobody gets why you work so much
- 13. You’re sacrificing a lot of your personal time and energy
- 14. (…When you could be watching Netflix)
- 16. You think raising money will fix all your problems
- 18. (…The problems get worse)
- 19. You may never make it
- 20. Starting a company is also *the most* fun you’ll ever have in your career
- 21. You make some of the most interesting friends
- 22. You set your own schedule
- 23. You could visit your users all over the world!
- 27. reallycheapcables.com roundown.com RestoCMS PLW Consulting Home Harvest Gold Foil Monarch Mobile Campus Tech Support Score More ILL DJ Wayv Senior Spring Block
- 28. • $75 Logos • $300 Websites • Dad’s PayPal account My first company
- 29. (…My dad didn’t know what the internet was)
- 30. (…I created a PayPal account using my parent’s info)
- 31. (…They had 0 idea what I was doing)
- 33. (…I was 12)
- 38. PLW Consulting
- 41. Tally • Open and close your bar tab directly on your phone • Split bar tabs easily without the hassle of paying friends • Have drinks delivered to you directly instead of waiting at the bar • Sold (we broke even)
- 42. Orchard • Manage your personal & professional connections • Keep in touch with the people you already know • Built with Expo, GraphQL, React Navigation • Dead (Pivot)
- 43. Perry from Shrek Guess how much? TFW 1 Day Sprints
- 47. You should be working on dev tools - Amjad Masad, co-founder repl.it
- 49. (…I STILL have no idea what I’m doing)
- 50. Snowy mountain top Wooded mountain top Rocky Mountain top
- 51. –Every Medium writer “The Ultimate Guide to Finding Yourself While You’re Standing On a Mountain Top in Colorado”
- 52. — Someone who started 16 companies in 2 weeks to write a Medium article about it “What I learned starting 16 companies in 2 weeks”
- 53. • YC Intros • Altos • Twitter Prospector • slither.io Life After Orchard
- 57. Talk To People
- 61. Build Your MVP ASAP
- 65. Draftbit • Build a mobile app without writing any code • Build it overnight (literally) • When you need to, export the code! • Alive & Thriving
- 66. 1. Scan QR Code 2. Drag Components 3. Export Code
- 69. BAEs BEST. AUDIENCE. EVER. draftbit.com draftbit • peterpme