The Connection Between Astronauts and Disruptive-Tech Entrepreneurs:

It is not a matter of choosing to create disruptive technologies, it is more of coming to solve a problem you are most passionate about in an innovative way. The technology your idea will be assembled on may end up being disruptive to the current market challenged against their inefficiencies.

That is precisely how some of the most celebrated high performing startups have risen to elite status over the past three decades: Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Microsoft, Google, Apple.

Where entrepreneurs are most like astronauts, is in tolerating the inevitable isolation. I have experienced this phenomenon firsthand. In hindsight, knowing how crucial this journey is to your learning and point of view expansion, I believe this period is the most exciting stage of your journey as an entrepreneur, the moment you jump off the cliff, where you grow to work smart, value your best skills, and fail from your weaknesses to learn.

A logical explanation I would give as advice to myself back in 2018 if I could: Expecting ultimate support and empathy for your vision from your immediate family and group of friends or colleagues will result in your disappointment and further unnecessary isolation; early fails will bring out the critics in your close social group (often out of their sincere concern and worry for your future) and you will be persuaded to give up! The only way to succeed is to tolerate the temporary yet painful isolation as an entrepreneur, keep firm with your growth mindset, and develop your new social network to reflect this firm decision — LinkedIn has been a blessing in my journey.

You need a support team of like-minded entrepreneurs and experts who can help you further assemble your vision. BDM was precisely designed to solve this challenge for entrepreneurs and to address the inefficiencies our VC/Education ecosystem faces today.

But truly, where entrepreneurs are most like astronauts is in having to work with a limited amount of resources over an enduring mission knowing they could crash and may not survive:

With a mission-critical mindset in making decisions for your startup (and patience), you could reach your planned objective. Even more now when distributed ledger technologies such as Blockchain and Hedera Hashgraph are making it possible for an entire community of entrepreneurs to support each other and drastically increase the chances of survival of each venture, launching new categories beyond our current imagination more frequently and less costly, which leads to creating an abundance of economic incentives in our communities.

The thrill of finding new worlds, landing on Mars, and living beyond our imagination is the same thrill that brings VCs and entrepreneurs to launch companies such as Airbnb, Doordash, and Zoox — “Humanity has been given the priceless gift of creativity, but it’s vital that you understand how it works. Creativity is the essence of the human spirit, and flowers best when it’s unconstrained.” I thought this excerpt from page 38 of Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, by Donald W. Braben, implies this connection between entrepreneurs and astronauts too well: “Unconstrained” is often an isolating experience.✍🏼

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