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Hey friends,

My mind is caught up on one worry in particular that I can foresee being an issue. I'm currently sitting on a business plan that is very, very likely to bring huge success. I'm talking millions, and millions of dollars, all due to an innovation in a field that genuinely needs it. Not gonna talk about it here on this post in detail, but for the sake of the question at hand, let's just assume that is in fact the case.

I love Entrepreneurship, I love business, I love every single thing about the hard-work, dedication, and risk-taking it requires to become part of the 1%. The one thing I don't like is my privacy being taken away from me. Furthermore, I find it insanely hard to believe that if my business becomes what it's highly likely to be, I'll somehow be able to live an introverted, quiet, private life with no publicity surrounding me or things I do outside of this business.

For further context: I'm also a music artist, and my style of music is very dark and eerie, and it goes alongside a cryptic character persona that I play. Publicly, if people associate my music artist career with the business I'm working on, it'll likely be a PR nightmare. Not because I'm doing anything wrong per se, but at face value it'll look very odd and there will be loads of judgement sent my way that I don't want affiliated with my business.

In essence, playing a horror villain character with dark, angsty music does not pair up well with an innovation in the youth market, constantly under the microscope of parents and specialists in the field relevant to my business.

I hope my concerns here make sense, but I can only imagine a parent looking at my business, seeing my name, searching me, then coming across what I do in the music industry and judging me for it. Thus, bad PR and an invasion of my privacy as an Entrepreneur.

In a perfect world, I'd love for the about section of my businesses website to simply have a pseudonym, with a description of my background. Nothing more, nothing less. I find it very hard to believe that'll bode well if this business truly takes off like I anticipate.

If anyone has advice for those going into business that crave copious amounts of privacy and want their passions outside of business to stay separate, please share! Thanks all!
 
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Cart before the horse much?

You're focusing on the wrong problem. It seems like you have no current success in business. You should be focusing on building a business that can be profitable and provides value first. If you start seeing success in your business, then you may want to start thinking of this problem.

Your job as an entrepreneur is to solve the problems in front of you at this moment. Staying anonymous as a highly successful business owner is such a far-off problem that this seems like mental masturbation.
 

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Hey friends,

My mind is caught up on one worry in particular that I can foresee being an issue. I'm currently sitting on a business plan that is very, very likely to bring huge success. I'm talking millions, and millions of dollars, all due to an innovation in a field that genuinely needs it. Not gonna talk about it here on this post in detail, but for the sake of the question at hand, let's just assume that is in fact the case.

I love Entrepreneurship, I love business, I love every single thing about the hard-work, dedication, and risk-taking it requires to become part of the 1%. The one thing I don't like is my privacy being taken away from me. Furthermore, I find it insanely hard to believe that if my business becomes what it's highly likely to be, I'll somehow be able to live an introverted, quiet, private life with no publicity surrounding me or things I do outside of this business.

For further context: I'm also a music artist, and my style of music is very dark and eerie, and it goes alongside a cryptic character persona that I play. Publicly, if people associate my music artist career with the business I'm working on, it'll likely be a PR nightmare. Not because I'm doing anything wrong per se, but at face value it'll look very odd and there will be loads of judgement sent my way that I don't want affiliated with my business.

In essence, playing a horror villain character with dark, angsty music does not pair up well with an innovation in the youth market, constantly under the microscope of parents and specialists in the field relevant to my business.

I hope my concerns here make sense, but I can only imagine a parent looking at my business, seeing my name, searching me, then coming across what I do in the music industry and judging me for it. Thus, bad PR and an invasion of my privacy as an Entrepreneur.

In a perfect world, I'd love for the about section of my businesses website to simply have a pseudonym, with a description of my background. Nothing more, nothing less. I find it very hard to believe that'll bode well if this business truly takes off like I anticipate.

If anyone has advice for those going into business that crave copious amounts of privacy and want their passions outside of business to stay separate, please share! Thanks all!
Lol, worry about this after you’ve made a few million. And yes you can stay private. Many businesses out there making money and you have no idea who the owners are/is.
 

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You remind me of this guy called Whizrock who last I heard was selling his music catalog at 1.5 billion.

Did you sell it yet Whizrock?
 
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Cart before the horse much?
This sums it up pretty well.

From reading the quote from @biophase it seems like you're making a series of assumptions on the future outcome of your business. Just a reminder: everyone has million dollars ideas, but not everyone can turn them into reality. Having an idea offers no guarantees of success.

Ideas are pawns. Execution is king.
 
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"Hey friends,

My mind is caught up on one worry in particular that I can foresee being an issue. I'm currently sitting on a business plan that is very, very likely to bring huge success. I'm talking millions, and millions of dollars, all due to an innovation in a field that genuinely needs it. Not gonna talk about it here on this post in detail, but for the sake of the question at hand, let's just assume that is in fact the case.

I love Entrepreneurship, I love business, I love every single thing about the hard-work, dedication, and risk-taking it requires to become part of the 1%. The one thing I don't like is my privacy being taken away from me. Furthermore, I find it insanely hard to believe that if my business becomes what it's highly likely to be, I'll somehow be able to live an introverted, quiet, private life with no publicity surrounding me or things I do outside of this business.

For further context: I'm also a music artist, and my style of music is very dark and eerie, and it goes alongside a cryptic character persona that I play. Publicly, if people associate my music artist career with the business I'm working on, it'll likely be a PR nightmare. Not because I'm doing anything wrong per se, but at face value it'll look very odd and there will be loads of judgement sent my way that I don't want affiliated with my business.

In essence, playing a horror villain character with dark, angsty music does not pair up well with an innovation in the youth market, constantly under the microscope of parents and specialists in the field relevant to my business.

I hope my concerns here make sense, but I can only imagine a parent looking at my business, seeing my name, searching me, then coming across what I do in the music industry and judging me for it. Thus, bad PR and an invasion of my privacy as an Entrepreneur.

In a perfect world, I'd love for the about section of my businesses website to simply have a pseudonym, with a description of my background. Nothing more, nothing less. I find it very hard to believe that'll bode well if this business truly takes off like I anticipate.

If anyone has advice for those going into business that crave copious amounts of privacy and want their passions outside of business to stay separate, please share! Thanks all!"
 

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Any clue of what he's up to now? I liked his entertaining threads

He was banned for being ridiculous one too many times. He tried to rejoin but I sniffed it out.
 
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As expected, user has requested his account to be deleted.

Thank you guys for answering a question where someone clearly wasn't interested in hearing the truth.

Hopefully after he makes his billions, he'll let us know how he managed his alter ego.
 

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