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Nobody tells you how lonely this gets

★ signal-weak   r/entrepreneur  ·  ↑ 443  ·  💬 196  ·  2025-06-04  ·  kw: hours every day  ·  open on reddit ↗
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Issue
Solo entrepreneur lacks co-founder, team, and advisor network to validate decisions and provide emotional/intellectual support during high-stress moments (e.g., 2 AM stress over late payments), creating isolation and decision paralysis.
Cost
unstated
Recommendation
mastermind group, network building
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anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 · 2026-05-08

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When I started, I thought the hardest part would be finding clients or making money. I was wrong. The hardest part has been doing this alone. I don’t have a co-founder. No team to bounce ideas off. No investors or advisors. Just me, pushing through every problem, every decision, every setback. Friends don’t really get it. Family supports me, but they don’t *really* know what it’s like to be up at 2 AM stressing over a late payment or wondering if I made the right call. I love building. I’m proud of what I’ve done so far. But some days, I miss having someone in the trenches with me. If you’ve been through this how do you deal with it? Do you build a network? Join a mastermind? Or do you just get used to the quiet? Would love to hear how others handle the solo grind.