And I was feeling pretty good about myself, so I went to participate in a startup competition with my college. It was called DEN, for Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network and it was the Shark Tank. I made a presentation with a bunch of slides about how I was going to build a big 8/n
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With no sales, no investment, nothing: just a plan for flashcards. The name of their business was TechNO! - lol what the fuck. Like that was how they spelled it. Great idea, guys. So I lost. The next day I got an e-mail from this guy named Bob. He was one of the judges 19/n
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He wrote a long thoughtful e-mail and he said "hey, I really respect what you accomplished. Unlike all the other teams, you had real sales and showed you could actually make things and then sell it. You also said on one of your slides that you were looking for a mentor." 20/n
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Bob became my mentor. He taught me so much. And I owe him hugely for that. What's the moral of the story? Even if you shit your pants in front of a ton of people, you have to keep going. Opportunities come at the strangest times. There is no failing, only giving up. 21/21
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