Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
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Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#2In short, the article says do these 3 things or fail...
1. have fun 2. differentiate from competition 3. nurture employees
The title of the article is over dramatic. There are lots of examples of businesses that don't do any of the above and yet they still turn a profit. Even then, you can do all 3 and still fail.
Solid advice nonetheless, just have to take it with a grain of salt.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#3In short, the article says do these 3 things or fail... 1. have fun 2. differentiate from competition 3. nurture employees The title of the article is over dramatic. There are lots of examples of businesses that don't do any of the above and yet they still turn a profit. Even then, you can do all 3 and still fail. Solid advice nonetheless, just have to take it with a grain of salt.
It's less advice and more PR.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#4We had a billionaire in India who followed his foot steps now he is pauper. His airline went bust and he had sell his beer factory.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#5In short, the article says do these 3 things or fail... 1. have fun 2. differentiate from competition 3. nurture employees The title of the article is over dramatic. There are lots of examples of businesses that don't do any of the above and yet they still turn a profit. Even then, you can do all 3 and still fail. Solid advice nonetheless, just have to take it with a grain of salt.
It's less advice and more PR.
I would say 0 advice and 100% PR.
The PR department who runs the blog thought would be cool to have some Richard Branson words there. So they sent up an email asking Mr. Branson to write a short advice post. He started writing easy stories he use to share every other interview or lecture, and create a title to make his particular case sounds like a general advice.
The blog guy thinks it is still necessary to put a little more context to make it sound like cool, wise advice. So he writes an intro that resonate with founders. That's it. Out of the microwave advice to generate traffic.
For me, not a single word of value for my startup management. The HN upvotes tricked me. Just some curiosities about how Richard Branson do business.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#6In short, the article says do these 3 things or fail... 1. have fun 2. differentiate from competition 3. nurture employees The title of the article is over dramatic. There are lots of examples of businesses that don't do any of the above and yet they still turn a profit. Even then, you can do all 3 and still fail. Solid advice nonetheless, just have to take it with a grain of salt.
Standard rah rah startup advice.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#7I'd re-write these slightly:
1. Know your users. If you understand what they want, you can provide value or fun, and they'll both be well-recieved.
2. Know the problem you're solving. Starbucks was solving the problem of creating a "3rd space", and they monetized with coffee.
3. Nurture employees, I'd keep the same.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#8In short, the article says do these 3 things or fail... 1. have fun 2. differentiate from competition 3. nurture employees The title of the article is over dramatic. There are lots of examples of businesses that don't do any of the above and yet they still turn a profit. Even then, you can do all 3 and still fail. Solid advice nonetheless, just have to take it with a grain of salt.
It's less advice and more PR.
Specifically, it's PR for nice lounges.
Maybe YC can found LoungeBase[tm] - my new start-up which offers lounge services for customers of other startups.
More seriously, I read Branson's autobiog recently. He likes taking chances, but if he hadn't had family resources to fall back on when starting out he would have been in jail.
So that helped too.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#9Area number one: not ending headlines with prepositions.
Re: Three areas which every start-up should focus their attention on
#10One question for HN moderators: Is flag the same as downvote?
For example, I think this is useless PR stuff, not interesting in any manner. So should I flag it like I would downvote a comment?
Or flag is mostly for more harmful things suchs as spammy or innacurate posts; and I should just hope less people upvote it and its buried?