My City Lives: The Science of Startups

Adam & Adil from #mycitylives

Objective: This is not a pep talk. We’re here to tell you about our experiences, good and bad.

The Science of Startups Our Science to Starting Up


The Story


Our Science of Starting Up

Our Algorithm: Tenacity + Happiness + People = A Successful Start Up


The Points Tenacity Happiness People

Make Rejection & Failures a positive experience.




There’s always a way, your job is to find it.

Being in the “right place at the right time” isn’t true. Your success is a product of tenacity and seizing opportunity.

You make your “luck”.

Canadian Media Fund. Boom.





Don’t confuse Start Up Romance with Start Up Reality.

It’s easy to glorify the early days when you’ve made it.

The reality is that it’s hard, really, really hard...That’s what she said

Your work has got to make you so happy that you see positive to living in your parent’s basement.






You Don’t need to Figure out Everything. Seriously.

Overwhelming if you try and make an empire from scratch. Treat things as projects. Less daunting and achievable.

Book Recommendation: “Rework” by the 37 Signals Dudes.







Life is too short to work with Jerks.

Nuff Said.

CSI Annex: Your environment, both in terms of people and place, makes you.








Community is your Greatest Asset.

You’re never going to make it by yourself. You need people. They bring everything you cannot.

Kobe doesn’t do it alone.









Build Real Relationships.

The new N word is “Networking”. Being social is the new sexy.

Take genuine interest in people and they’ll take interest back.










If you serve passion, they will get drunk.

Passion will make you achieve things that you have no business being able to do. Surround yourself with other passionate people, that shit is infectious.










If you serve passion, they will get drunk.

Love.

Love what you do and work will never be work.


Famous Last Words

This is our formula based on the lesson we learned.

Yours will be different.

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