Two guys in 1995 who were at Stanford had an idea to gather all the information of the world, giving rise to the birth of Google, which at first seemed that it was not going to be a company that had much potential, its logo is made in WordArt. Who would invest in their healthy judgment in a company whose logo is made in WordArt? it was also the number 12 search engine, Yahoo! it already existed, and Larry Page had to insist to 357 different investors before obtaining his first investment ticket.
All the Startups at the beginning look ugly and without much sense, the reality is that yours probably looks like this and that of many looks like that, and it does not matter, because the investor is not going to invest for what you are today, it is going to Invest for the vision you have, but you will pay today’s price. So do not worry about the best design, or if you do not have all the best, you will have it at some point, the goal is that today you concentrate on finding that problem and solve it, if you do that you will eventually work, like Google. For example, what would have happened if any of us had invested 1,000 pesos in Google in 1998, how much money would you have earned in 2010? Maybe then it was very easy to make the decision, and it always happens the same, when we see Google in 2010 of that size we say: “Of course it was obvious” but remember your WordArt logo, “it was not obvious” but there is people who have the ability to see the invisible. If any of us had invested those thousand pesos in Google in 98 we would have earned around 42 million dollars in 2010. Those are Startups, you kill the inflexible giant, you grow exponentially and you change the world. Focus on a problem, solve it and do not worry about how you look, know and understand that as Startup you probably need money, we know where you are standing but the important thing is where you want to go. I’m sure you’re already convinced and say “I’m going to be a Startup, I’m going to invest in a Startup, I’m going to find a problem, I’m going to solve it, I’m going to change a whole industry, I’m going to make a lot of money in the process and I’m going to benefit my investors”.
Now we have to understand a little bit the philosophy that exists between investor and entrepreneur, and what we have to think about here is that there is no difference between the entrepreneur and the investor, why? If a Startup solves a problem with innovation generates value, then the entrepreneur goes out with his Startup and tells a person that we call him an investor, hey, I give you a bit of that value in exchange for your money, if the investor accepts, you realize there was never a difference because you as an entrepreneur are selling value and he as an investor is buying value. It is important that we change that perspective we have of entrepreneurs who are “not doing anything” and transform them into “people who are generating value” through problem solving and innovation, and also stop seeing the investor in suits who If you give us an appointment it will be the best thing that happens to us in life and it will probably take us 5 minutes and we have to run away. I believe that today in the 21st century we are at a point where entrepreneurs generate value and investors give money in exchange for that, and it is such a common transaction.