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wow amazing story, thanks for all the detail. Very enjoyable to read. Quick question, whats most influential book you read? (in terms of decisions or directions you took with Cloud…

Early stage?

Seconded

Sorry to hear that man, I hope things will pickup for you mate.

Thanks buddy great advice!

How did you go about gathering customers? Also, what are the 3 main lessons you learned from the other failed startups?

what type of startup is it? SaaS?

How big is your team?

What stage are you in? early days?

tru dat :)

You touched on another opened wound - "falling in love with the idea over time" For me I experienced the opposite. A while back we were working on and idea which we believed to hav…

Good point - my same process of thought https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080740

I do very much agree with "you are less likely to understand the problem" . That being said however, the contrary also appears true - I doubt the founders of Uber knew much about t…

Very true, I have always had the same perception maybe even treated it as an undisputed cliché in every startup pitch. But as time goes on, I seem to be getting more cynical to the…

> Both are very likely to fail Applies if the execution and luck of the founders is rather poor - something that will normally be true in all cases. My question focuses on the like…

Let me begin by clarifying the term 'forced' - in this context I would describe it as any idea that was artificially realized against a criteria, rather than an idea that naturally…