The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day)
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The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day)
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#2This might sound uncouth but that's the dad I wish I'd had.
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#3This might sound uncouth but that's the dad I wish I'd had.
I love my dad, but, agreed.
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#4This might sound uncouth but that's the dad I wish I'd had.
If we could only choose this :)... Anyway, sounds like a matter of family culture. Her dad was already running the family business, maybe motivated by his dad before him. This is some of the best advice a parent can give, IMHO.
[edit: 'His' changed to 'her'. Sorry for that]
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#5I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism, but this was painful to read. At least I had the courtesy to stick it through to the end to be sure before I posted this. We deserve better than this drivel at the top of HN.
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#6I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism, but this was painful to read. At least I had the courtesy to stick it through to the end to be sure before I posted this. We deserve better than this drivel at the top of HN.
Well, don't be then. I didn't find it painful to read. Why did you?
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#7I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism, but this was painful to read. At least I had the courtesy to stick it through to the end to be sure before I posted this. We deserve better than this drivel at the top of HN.
Okay. I'm just telling my stories, I'm not entitled to the #1 spot and I'm not canvasing votes (ok, I asked my husband to vote). If a couple of people read this and got fired up to have some balls and take some risk, that's good enough for me.
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#8I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism, but this was painful to read. At least I had the courtesy to stick it through to the end to be sure before I posted this. We deserve better than this drivel at the top of HN.
Well, don't be then. I didn't find it painful to read. Why did you?
I can't speak for WiseWeasel, but for me the spelling errors made some sentences hard to parse on first read. A bit of proofreading would have caught the worst of it, like these:
"My wonderful friend David Weekly probably remembers me angsting in his kitchen over whether or pursue this idea vs. what ultimately became Referly."
"I pondered him comments though"
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#9This might sound uncouth but that's the dad I wish I'd had.
If we could only choose this :)... Anyway, sounds like a matter of family culture. Her dad was already running the family business, maybe motivated by his dad before him. This is some of the best advice a parent can give, IMHO. [edit: 'His' changed to 'her'. Sorry for that]
her* I think.
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#10I'm beginning to come to this realization myself - having balls is one of the most important factors of having success (no matter what success means to you, whether it's social, financial or something else).
If you don't have the balls to do the things necessary to archive the things you want, with all your energy and will behind it, you simply won't archive it.
Most people doesn't even try to do the things they fear, just a small minority does. Of the small minority just a few tries with everything they have, most of them unfortunately holds back because of their fear of failure. A fear of failure is preventing them from giving it everything they've got.