We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'
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#2I wish more university students had this kind of attitude. Instead of "Let's take out the maximum amount of loans so I can get a new iPhone!"
Well done.
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#3I wish more university students had this kind of attitude. Instead of "Let's take out the maximum amount of loans so I can get a new iPhone!" Well done.
Thank you!
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#4I wish more university students had this kind of attitude. Instead of "Let's take out the maximum amount of loans so I can get a new iPhone!" Well done.
he's a great kid, i am a very proud investor
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#5I had to resubmit this because the first post got missed. This is one of the best startup stories I've heard. Good luck with AnyPerk, guys!
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#6You do not necessarily need to start in the Valley to become successful, especially if your situation there imposes additional hurdles to success. Living out of a car or tenement is generally detrimental to one's ability to focus on the business.
It's always amazing to me that as tech entrepreneurs we largely sell to others the idea that technology enables us to do anything from anywhere, but simultaneously believe that there is exactly one place on earth where we must phyiscally be to get anything done. The ideal place to start a startup is anywhere that your day-to-day life issues can take a backseat to working on your startup.
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#7Living in a Mission dump trying to sleep three people to a bed is not how you should be starting a business. Why do people think this is how you optimize for success?
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#8I wish more university students had this kind of attitude. Instead of "Let's take out the maximum amount of loans so I can get a new iPhone!" Well done.
Thank you!
Taro, two questions:
1. What was your thought process when pivoting from a dating site to AnyPerk? They seem to me like two unrelated things.
2. You say that your burnout was very low, but living three guys in a motel room, surely it has to be hard from a mental perspective, how did you guys cope with that?
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#9Living in a Mission dump trying to sleep three people to a bed is not how you should be starting a business. Why do people think this is how you optimize for success?
It just makes a good story feeding into the mythology of SV. Not to take anything away from these guys for their actual achievements, but the article itself is nothing more than color-by-numbers startup porn clickbait.
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#10I had to resubmit this because the first post got missed. This is one of the best startup stories I've heard. Good luck with AnyPerk, guys!
Thanks for submitting!