Being an entrepreneur certainly comes with lots of thrills, but it also has its ups and downs. Most of the time, things don’t go according to plan, but you have to roll with the punches. It’s only by moving forward that you can make progress. Progress in startups is anything but linear—it’s up and down until you figure it out. Now, let’s take a look at the lighter side of things as we count down the most hilarious memes for entrepreneurs.
Startup Memes Table of Content
1. Started a Business vs. Getting a Job
2. New Idea vs Old Finished Project
3. Pitch Deck Promises Vs. Reality
4. Full Stack Developer vs. Full StackOverFlow
5. Actually Building a Business Vs. VC Fundraising
6. Getting into Y Combinator
7. Y Combinator Second Time
8. Client Budget vs Expectations
9. Minimum Viable Product
10. Wedding MVP vs. Cupcakes
11. Simplify the MVP
12. Spending money on ads
13. Customer Service from the Bed
14. Advancing Your Career During Pandemic
15. Linkedin Sales Pitches
16. Linkedin Synergies
17. Reading too much but not executing
18. Startups During Pandemic
19. Building without an audience
20. Chasing venture capital vs. finding paying customers
21. Lean Startup Book” vs. Launching a Startup
22. Launch Day at a Startup vs. First Year
23. Startup Media is 99% on Fundraising
24. First year at a Startup
25. Product-Market-fit hits different
26. SaaS Pricing Struggles
27. Launch Date
28. Sales Notification
29. Plenty of Startup Advice at an Accelerator
30. Co-Founder Disappears
31. Co-Founder Sticks
32. Life of a Founder
33. Adding More Features
34. No Code MVP
35. Showing off the MRR to your Partner
36. Scaling the Servers with any Paying Customers
37. Social Media Vanity Metrics
38. Validate the idea
39. Founder Mode
40. Entrepreneur’s vacation
41. No one wants to talk to customers
42. Crappy Advice
43. Startup launches are usually not stellar
44. Tech Conference vs. Actually Making a Sale
45. That Developer that never deliver anything
46. Bootstrapping and bills
47. Bootstrapping vs VC-backed Part I
48. Bootstrapping vs VC-backed Part II
49. When you are about to give up
50. Jack of all trades
51. Where are the ups?
52. The Never Ending List of MVP Features
53. Canada’s Tech ecosystem
54. Canada’s Ecosystem II
55. Applying for a Mortgage as Founders and Self-employed
56. Scaling a Startup
57. Dating as a Founder
58. When you raise
59. Canadian VC starter pack
60. Canadian Founder Raising
61. AI Startups Be Like
62. How’s the Startup is Actually Going?
1. Started a Business vs. Getting a Job
Chances are you have been there. You update that Linkedin your new job titles and congrats come in but you start your own business nobody even comments! Even that one comment is a total spam.
2. New Idea vs Old Finished Project
That’s right you know what we’re talking about! You have plenty of unfinished projects but the new idea is just looking great and you can’t keep your eyes from it. Everyone struggles with this. This is the story of our lives.
3. Pitch Deck Promises Vs. Reality
Remember that time Elon Musk did the new demo of the car window and things went horribly wrong? Well…this one really describes the states of having a pitch deck vs reality.
4. Full Stack vs. Full StackOverFlow
The first hire is usually like this. It will either come as a full-stack developer and launching it out the galaxy or will disappear all together. We hope you will hit the first one but won’t be surprised if things go horribly wrong with the hire. We have been there and see in it all.
5. Actually Building a Business Vs. VC Fundraising
This one is so accurate. Many startups can get distracted by fundraising. They spend more hours on fundraising as supposed to finding customer. Let’s focus on finding those paying customers.
6. Getting into Y Combinator
This is really what it feels like to score an interview with Y combinator. Battle after battle you try and try again! You will do whatever it takes and then comes all sorts of rejections or potentially accepted. Just roll in with the punches.
7. Applying to Y Combinator Second Time
If at first you don’t succeed, might as well shoot your shot to apply one more time!
8. Client Budget vs Expectations
This one is so relatable! Often times clients want the best but budget is not there at all. There’s a big gap there between expectations and reality.
9. Minimum Viable Product
This one is hilarious! It’s all about the Minimal Viable Product but there’s no MVP in the beginning and you have to show some mock up or something to show!
10. Wedding MVP vs. Cupcakes
Always aim to build the cupcake first before wedding cakes for your MVP!
11. Simplify That MVP: Minimum Viable Product
The worst thing is spending years building features that no one asked for! Simplify your MVP as much as possible.
12. Spending money on ads
She wants cashflow, but he wants to spend money on ads to get free trials with no paying customers.
13. Customer Service from the Bed
This is one is more common now these days! As entrepreneurs you are constantly checking your email and chances are this is how customer service looks like.
14. Advancing Your Career During Pandemic
We live in a world of distractions and this one couldn’t be any more true!
15. Linkedin Sales Pitches Coming in
As entrepreneurs you also get bombarded with sales pitches on Linkedin and this one couldn’t be any more true. The problem with these sales pitches are that they are right off the bat after connecting with you.
16. Exploring Synergies on Linkedin
This one is literally every single time! Founders are incredibly good at detecting that sales pitch from miles away.
17. Reading too much but not executing
We can talk strategy all day about the startup but if you’re not executing it’s over.
18. Startups During Pandemic
We know this already. Startups are brutal to build but building it in pandemic is something else.
19. Building without an audience
We know this common symptoms among startups. You keep on building but without actually marketing anything!
20. Chasing venture capital vs. finding paying customers
This one is so relatable as many startups try to raise funds without any traction or paying customers.
21. Learning from “Lean Startup Book” vs. Launching a Startup
Actually launching a startup is radically different as you have throw everything out the window.
22. Launch Day at a Startup vs. First Year
It’s truly brutal out there for building a startup and we know it. No need to sugar coat it!
23. Startup Media is 99% on Fundraising
Have you tried opening a news site on startups? It’s mostly fundraising, layoffs, and some random BS policy. There’s hardly any coverage for bootstrappers, which is why it’s exciting to see site like FoundersPress bringing a new fresh perspective to the news site.
24. First year at a Startup
First year at a startup is radically different than the second year. In the first year it’s all about perfection before reality hits!
25. Product-Market-fit hits different
Every startup should aim to reach the stage where it achieves product-market fit. It’s a thing of beauty!
26. SaaS Pricing Struggles
Honestly, the pressure is too much when you try to raise your prices! Chances are your prices are too low.
27. Launch Date
This is by far one of our favourites as the launch almost always gets delayed.
28. Sales Notification
Nothing hits a startup founder, like those stripe sales notification! Cheers to more sales at your startup.
29. Plenty of Startup Advice at Accelerator
As they say “if you are not in the arena, I am not interested in or open to your feedback”. Let’s put more entrepreneurs and operators into startup accelerators and incubators.
30. Co-Founder Disappears
Don’t be surprised if your co-founder disappears off the face of the planet.
31. If the Co-Founder Sticks Around
If your co-founder sticks around—which, on its own, is a miracle—by the end of the year, it will look like this!
32. Life of a Founder
Which one did you dodge today? Hope it’s not all the above!
33. Adding More Features
We love to add features, but does it actually move the needle?
34. No Code MVP works
Some startups can spend months building an MVP with the latest JavaScript framework, but you went out with no code and it paid off.
35. Showing off the MRR to your Partner
When your significant other asks you, “How much money did you make today?”. It really takes a supportive partner to launch a startup!
36. Scaling the Servers with any Paying Customers
Let’s first validate that idea before scaling up the servers! Chances are you don’t need that much space.
37. Social Media Vanity Metrics
Social media approval is great, but at the end of the day it boils down to sales.
38. Validate the idea
The best form of validation is from paying customers. Feedback from friends and family doesn’t count.
39. Founder Mode
Paul Graham recently released a new essay called Founder Mode, and it went viral.
40. Entrepreneur’s Vacation
There’s no such thing as vacation at least in the beginning, but if you want to make it look like one on Instagram this may be the way to go!
41. No one wants to talk to customers
The only thing that can you keep you in business is paying customers, everything else is just noise. Keep talking to your customers!
42. Too much Crappy Startup Advice Out there!
When you get advice be sure to filter it out and take from those who have been there as a full-time founder or an early employee at a startup!
43. Startup launches are usually not stellar
We all think the launch is going to be epic, but most of the time it won’t. You have to launch multiple times to attract users! Keep launching that thing.
44. Tech Conference vs. Actually Making a Sale
Attending tech conferences for the whole day is easy, but landing actual paying customers is something else.
45. That Developer that never deliver anything
Remember that developer who said they could build the MVP in four weeks and never delivered anything? Then they disappeared off the face of the planet.
46. Bootstrapping a startup
The struggle of bootstrapping a startup is real. In the beginning is mostly expenses.
47. Bootstrapping vs VC-backed
Whether you raise or not, both are challenging and depends on the nature of the business.
48. Bootstrapping vs VC-backed Part II
Another classic startup memes on bootstrapping vs. VC-backed.
49. When you are about to give up.
Remember that scene from Lord of the Rings? The journey doesn’t end here.
50. When you realize you have be the jack of all trades.
Never question a founder’s career choice but this one had us at “Linkedin influencer!”
51. Startup life is full of ups and downs.
Where are the ups though? It’s mostly downs in the beginning.
52. The Never Ending List of Features
The list of features for the MVP literally never ends. Simplify it for the first version of your product.
53. Canadian Tech Ecosystem
Oooo Canada! We’ve got this one covered.
54. The Startup Ecosystem
We really need to rethink how the ecosystem works in Canada. Let’s get the funding to actual entrepreneurs.
55. The Mortgage
Have you tried to applied as a founder for a mortgage?
56. Scaling a Startup
Scaling a startup is a different animal all together. Are you leveraging any resources to scale up?
57. Dating as a Startup Founder
No one wants to talk about this, but the reality is dating as a startup founder is another ball game.
58. Raising a seed round
While at the subject of dating when you raise, things finally get interesting!
59. Canadian VC starter pack
Some VC humour to mix it up!
60. Canadian Founder Looking to Raise
Raising money in Canada is a different ball, but sometimes you have to take matter into your own hands!
61. AI Startups Be Like
These days every startup seems to be like! Throw in an AI powered, you’re all set.
62. How’s the Startup is Actually going?
When work is pilling up the startup and people asking how you are doing.
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