MedNexus is currently on the second iteration of its platform, and we have received our fair share of cynicism and rejection along the way. Most of it has helped refine our value proposition - and also brought us to unbelievable lows, where all hope seemed gone.
It is inevitable that investors, market veterans, and even customers will at one point or another shut you down. But your job as en entrepreneur is to take their advice, and take no heed to their skepticism.
The establishment is full of "experts" who will look for reasons why it can't be done. But your job as an entrepreneur is to get busy finding ways to make it work, knowing that maybe, not in 1 month or in 3 months, but in 6 months you will eventually prove them wrong.
The establishment will look at your competitors as an excuse to give up. But your job as an entrepreneur is to try to change the world, not worry about what company X or Y is doing. There will ALWAYS be competition.
There's a reason those people are with the herd and not standing where you are. Innovation takes a certain philosophical mindset, a burning desire to change the status quo, which gives you the mental resiliency to move mountains (and trust me, starting a company is as close to that as it gets). I like to think of myself as an optimist-realist: I try to be pragmatic in the short and medium term, navigating the daily challenges thrown my way and keeping my eyes open for cues from the market. But more importantly an unflinching optimist in the long term, which allows me to get up in the morning and keep forging ahead, even when nothing seems to be going right.
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