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Ask HN: At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime?

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Re: Ask HN: At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime?

#21

> We all start with an idea, 0 customers, 0 followers wat. No, this is not true at all. Most successful startups work through many ideas until they already have potential customers to work with as they build. And if the idea doesn't come together and prove that is can generate revenue, people don't build it. They move on. This idea that someone has a vision that nobody else has bought into and turn it into a startup…

no man you just take a bunch of psychedelics and it just like comes to you maaaannnn /s

But yeah fr it’s all about iterate/pivot until it snaps into place

Re: Ask HN: At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime?

#22

> We all start with an idea, 0 customers, 0 followers wat. No, this is not true at all. Most successful startups work through many ideas until they already have potential customers to work with as they build. And if the idea doesn't come together and prove that is can generate revenue, people don't build it. They move on. This idea that someone has a vision that nobody else has bought into and turn it into a startup…

no man you just take a bunch of psychedelics and it just like comes to you maaaannnn /s But yeah fr it’s all about iterate/pivot until it snaps into place

100%.

Re: Ask HN: At what point you decided to pursue your startup fulltime?

#23
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The job market sucked. The average job was paying less than $1000/month. I was getting freelance work that paid better, but they weren't actually paying what they promised. I started selling crackers and coffee with my wife, until a mentor told me what a fucking idiot I was not doing apps. Everyone wanted apps then, just like they wanted AI, but they didn't want to pay market rates for them. After pitching a price co…

interesting story from retail domain. thanks for sharing!
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