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# Starting this company is definitely one of the hardest things I've ever done
- URL: https://www.jacobpugmire.com/starting-this-company-is-definitely-one-of-the-hardest-things-ive-ever-done/
- Published: 2025-05-24T11:13:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-26T13:39:02.000Z
- Description: There's a saying that 99% of business owners don't know what the fuck they are doing, and that is definitely true.
- Author: Jacob Pugmire
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, JP Protein, Commitment, Big Project

## I decided to start this company

Why? There are several reasons:

1. **Taiwan lacks good options** (I personally want to use my product.)
2. **Give myself a visa,** so that no agency controls me and I have absolute freedom to live in Taiwan.
3. **Fund my media production,** I want to use the profits to hire an editor, assistant, photographer, etc.
4. **To learn and accomplish something challenging,** I am going to start a company eventually, so why not now?

*There is no going back, I have already started the campaign.*

### Stress and worry, I feel like I am in debt

I never knew it would feel this way. 

Being a business owner is terrifying and stressful, because it feels like you owe people. Your customers gave you money and you need to provide. You are in debt. You have liabilities.

*Wow. That is a horrifying feeling, to be honest.*

I like my freedom. I like not owing anyone anything.

I don't like this feeling of owing something to so many people. It makes me extremely uncomfortable. 

### Nevertheless, I must carry through and deliver

It doesn't matter how I feel. I've already made the commitment and I must see it through. I must finish what I started.

This in itself is a good lesson - and perhaps will be one of the greatest takeaways from this entire endeavor.

> The ability to commit to an insanely difficult project for a long-time and see it through to its completion.

**This is perhaps one of the greatest talents that all successful people share.** There isn't one self-made successful person in history who doesn't have this trait; it is a self-requisite to be successful.

JP Protein 

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To follow along the journey of starting this company with me, click the official Instagram link down below.

[Link To Instagram Page ](https://www.instagram.com/jp%5Fprotein/?hl=en&ref=jacobpugmire.com) 

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Have a wonderful day everyone.

Warm Regards,

Jacob Pugmire