Thoughts On Becoming Self-Sufficient and Defeating Personal Homelessness
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#2The most useful wisdom always comes from the chlenges we personally face. This is where the best startup ideas come from.
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#3The most useful wisdom always comes from the chlenges we personally face. This is where the best startup ideas come from.
That is startup-as-self-help wishful thinking.
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#4Uhm.
This is bullshit. A blog post on how not to be homeless and get a job?
Are you fucking serious? I mean really.
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#5Uhm. This is bullshit. A blog post on how not to be homeless and get a job? Are you fucking serious? I mean really.
I'm baffled by your fury. What are you objecting to?
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#6The most useful wisdom always comes from the chlenges we personally face. This is where the best startup ideas come from.
Is that really true? I'm not a part of the 'startup community' but looking at a few of the startups that have achieved some success (Google, Reddit, Balsamiq, Dropbox) it doesn't really seem like they were a result of personal challenges faced by the founders. Maybe there are lots of other good examples of where startups are inspired by challenges faced by founders.
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#9The most useful wisdom always comes from the chlenges we personally face. This is where the best startup ideas come from.
Is that really true? I'm not a part of the 'startup community' but looking at a few of the startups that have achieved some success (Google, Reddit, Balsamiq, Dropbox) it doesn't really seem like they were a result of personal challenges faced by the founders. Maybe there are lots of other good examples of where startups are inspired by challenges faced by founders.
I haven't studied the stories of those companies that closely, but to be successful, you have to use the resources you have wisely. One of those resources is personal experience.
You have to experience a problem to know how to solve it; and the problem isn't always as serious as being homeless. 37signals built their own Project Management platform, for example.
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#10For context, he was homeless about fifteen years ago. And is still very involved in helping the homeless.
My impression is you wouldn't have been able to guess that he was homeless X years ago based solely on his middle-class life now. Real bootstrapping
I believe one of everyone's worst fears is to be homeless (whether acknowledged or not - I hate inevitably thinking about it whenever I see someone on the street).