If you never finish, you can't fail

Today I received an email from a friend who has too many businesses. Every year it seems he starts a new business with new investors… some have success for a while, and others slowly go along at a semi profitable state.

What I admire most is his ability to continue executing. What frustrates me is the trait that I consciously work hard to avoid… starting too many things and committing to too much. Today reading about the newest venture, it hit me…

If you never finish, you can’t fail…

While I know the full story of investors who have been injured financially, and businesses that become living dead companies, few people know that side of the story. Most people don’t see the time series of all events, only the current company thinking ‘he must be doing well to have so many things at one time.’

What I see is someone trying to outrun their own past and focus on new and shiny without staying in any one company long enough to capture the profits.