Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?

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Post by wastedbrains » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 3:43 PM UTC

Read some books about the startup experience, get ready to enjoy the ride.

Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?

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Post by jbyers » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 4:45 PM UTC

icky wrote: post #33

jbyers wrote: post #29

Agree with yourself that you'll do whatever it takes to make it succeed. Otherwise, don't bother.

> Agree with yourself that you'll do whatever it takes to make it succeed. Or, conversely, "fail fast".

Good point, failing fast is success if you learn from it.

Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?

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Post by dkokelley » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 4:52 PM UTC

ivankirigin wrote: post #38

gojomo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further: do this dinner at a cheap, stable, unpretentious place. Come grand success or crushing failure, this will become the spot for founders' reunion dinners in the years or decades to come.

"I'll have a double-double animal-style launch burger."

+1 for the In-N-Out reference. Love that place.

Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?

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Post by falsestprophet » Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 11:05 PM UTC

ivankirigin wrote: post #37

falsestprophet wrote: post #7

I highly recommend load testing. Good luck.

That is very optimistic.

I don't think so. Getting enough traffic to choke a small VPS is possible sooner than you may expect, especially if you have not rooted out all serious bottlenecks (which are often discovered during load testing.)