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MenuI will share the experience of CEO’s of start-up across the globe. To run a start-up, you will have Sleepless nights, tons of stress and constant pangs of guilt. Paul DeJoe, founder of Ecquire and Entrepreneur in Residence at Fairbridge Partners, wrote the most popular response. "Very tough to sleep most nights of the week," he starts. "Weekends don't mean anything to you anymore. Closing a round of financing is not a relief. It means more people are depending on you to turn their investment into 20 times what they gave you."DeJoe describes it as extremely hard work to "turn off." Anytime he does something he enjoys outside of the start-up he feels guilty. Even vacations are not enjoyable because the start-up could be floundering while it is being neglected. "You start to respect the Duck," writes DeJoe. "Paddle like hell under the water and be smooth and calm on top where everyone can see you." It is not all bad though. In fact, DeJoe says running a start-up is exciting. "Even when it's bad, it's exciting," he writes. "You start to see that you're a leader and you have to lead, or you can't be involved with it at all. You turn down acquisition offers because you need to run the show and you feel like your team is the best in the World and you can do anything with hard work. Quitting is not an option."
And if after all that, if you are successful, you start to feel a wave of unexpected emotions.
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