As an entrepreneur, you are likely to encounter various aspects of business and life where scarcity might be an issue: funding, customers, revenue, skills, talent or even your time. There is one thing, however, that you will always find in abundance: strong excuses.
When I released my very first paid WordPress product back in November 2007, I didn't know much about the space. Much less did I know that this release would eventually kickstart the behemoth that is WooThemes today.
Our initial landing page was designed to do one thing: capture e-mail addresses that we can use as lead generation. The messaging was incredibly vague about what PublicBeta would actually be, but it was clear about one thing: entrepreneurship is tough and we wanted to help entrepreneurs.
If you have the passion and ambition to build the next Facebook or Instagram, then put your money where your mouth is and fund the thing yourself.
Back in 2008, I quit my 2-month old corporate job (and ultimately, career) to pursue WooThemes full-time. This was just as a worldwide recession hit and everyone was clawing to their existing jobs like there was no tomorrow.