These series of guest posts are written by the teams attending the Tetuan Valley Startup School Fall edition. The Gold team, formed by Alex Recarey and Tony Martín, is presenting their project, TheraPeers.

“Everything that can be invented has been already” – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1899.

People keep innovating. It’s part of what makes us human, we are constantly searching for ways to make our lives, everybody’s lives, better.

But not everybody is an innovator. Obviously Charles H. Duell wasn’t. Even before we decided to jump head first into founding our startup we have been constantly double guessing ourselves. “Will this work? Will people like it? This idea’s terrible!”. Some days you feel like the World is Your’s , and someday’s, well, you feel your idea is full of fail and everybody just can’t stop telling you how bad it is. There are always people who “wont get it”. That’s fine. We believe that’s what separates the visionaries from the sheep.

“I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.” – Bill Gates, 1994

Yeah, even successful, important people can fail to grasp the magnitude or the potential of certain things. So if you don’t believe in yourself, you’ve already lost. Forget prophets and doom-mongers. The only way to know if something is going to work or not is to try it.

So we’re trying it. Working on TheraPeers day and night. And we can tell you one thing: We’ve never been happier, more fulfilled. If it works, we believe we can make an impact, make peoples lives better. If it doesn’t, well, it’s a helluva lot of fun.

So hang some motivational posters on the wall! Keep yourself focused! Believe in what you do! ‘Cause (almost) no one else will…