Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
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Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#2No. We should either get our heads down and code or get our feet dirty and go find some customers.
As a side note, we shouldn't be reading Hacker News either. Much less commenting.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#3How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#4How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
Troll much?
I'd assume it got on the front page because people thought it was good advice and/or interesting. I've been told that's how HN works (snark).
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#5How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue.
2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped.
3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw this post while there is still time.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#6How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue. 2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped. 3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw…
I've been suffering from the same thing. The posts that make the front page stay on for a while, then get modded off without notice.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue. 2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped. 3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw…
I've been suffering from the same thing. The posts that make the front page stay on for a while, then get modded off without notice.
Do you have any examples of submissions where it is happening?
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#8How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue. 2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped. 3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw…
I appreciate your response, but I disagree with your normative advice.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#9How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.
1. I was a conference ho when I was an employee of a startup with product market fit and substantial revenue. 2. I was running a test to see why we are getting modded of the front page - this post made the front page without a single vote from friends, coworkers, etc. before getting bumped. 3. There are tons of entrepreneurs falling into this trap - they are all packing for their flights right now, hopefully they saw…
Hell yes! Well said. This makes me feel much less jealous of all the conference hoes running around acting like you need to be at a conference to get great things done.
Re: Early Stage Startup Founders Should Probably Not Attend SXSW
#10The simple fact that if your startup has minimal capital (if any at all) and no revenue should indicate that spending a small fortune (potentially $2,500-10,000) to travel to a week long party (that's what SXSW is anyway) will only put you further into the debt hole that you need to make up for later. Who cares if you make $5,000 later on, because you're effectively still negative.
Some of these ego-whores are at every meetup, conference, mixer, breakfast, etc. Imagine how much of the startup's capital they are effectively wasting. All in the favor of "networking" --- 90% of which never pans out because most people at these events are all talk.
Sure, the events are fun, but they're not as productive as hunkering down and writing some code, reaching out to a potential customer, showing off a demo, or reviewing some feedback.