I Accidentally Erased a Year's Work on My First Business
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I Accidentally Erased a Year's Work on My First Business
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I thought I was backing up a year's work on my first business. I erased it instead. I was broke, living in my parents' basement, and trying to decide whether I could face starting again.
What got me back to work was a bit of arithmetic I kept doing about the people who stopped along the way. The '10% rule' in this story was how I talked myself into continuing; those percentages aren't measured odds of success.
00:00 The math I used to keep going
00:49 Erasing a year's work
01:48 The campus job that gave me the idea
02:34 Taking the first step
02:59 Sticking with the work
03:57 The setback and another decision
04:29 Sitting down to rebuild
05:09 Why I kept showing up
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I'm Art Harrison. I tell stories about work, money, starting businesses, and starting over, usually because something didn't go the way I thought it would.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheArtHarrison