How Founders Can Make the Grind Bearable
June 16, 2025
Startups are hard, but you don’t need to deliberately suffer to succeed.
How Founders Can Make the Grind Bearable
Startups are hard, but you don’t need to deliberately suffer to succeed.
1. Suffering is not a requirement. As a founder, you don't have a certain amount of dues in hardship to pay in order to be credible.
2. Make it Bearable. When a frequent task is becoming a strain that you try to avoid, that's a good indicator that your performance may also be slipping.
3. Examples. If you hate doing cold outreach for sales, try content marketing and conference speaking. If you dislike one on one meetings for recruitment, organize events for people with that skill set. There's often many ways to complete a goal.
