I assumed this article is some kind of a joke but after reading the comments, I seem to be wrong?
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#12Fucking hell that's an awful post. Lean Startup is great but you should realise the value of investing in good design. Don't go down a rabbit hole of 'big vision' design perfection straight away, sure (a $50k set of Photoshop comps before you've got product-market fit isn't a great idea) but you're not going to get very far with a fucking Unbounce template. Hire a good designer—one who knows how to do 'early stage st…
I tend to agree. The "start-up"-term has become so bloated that it hardly make any sense any more. To churn out hundreds of generic landing-pages based on templates, built with "start-up generators" wont create anything of value. "Don't have a product - no problem!" Get your idea out there and get that seed-round running - then you can surely hire some eager developer-monkeys to do the implementation.. wrong. IMHO a…
> The "start-up"-term has become so bloated that it hardly make any sense any more
> IMHO a start-up is a ...
Ironic. :)
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#13That's a solid advice. It's all about MVP + fast release cycle these days.
absolutely , for example i didn't knew stylate which is pretty cool imo.
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#14List is good. But, I'm not sure why the author is recommending costly HTMLBoutique instead of cssilize ($35 + pms + w3c standards)
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#15Bonus tips:
- Save space on your bookshelves by tearing all the pages out
- Hire actors to be your friends and family
- Wear a suit once and return it
- Wine tastings help you forget
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#16I'm a single founder. Even though I know I must delegate, I still have difficulty putting it in practice. I'm told that I must focus on the business side of things, and outsource (some parts of) development. Being a programmer myself, I always think that "good programmers are expensive, and cheap programmers are not good", so it hinders me from hiring my peers. How do you guys handle this situation? Esp. if you're pe…
To quote the old adage, "Quality, Speed, Cost: Pick any two."
Quality is possible without cost, but the speed at which you will acquire those developers is low. You will need to hunt from the bargain bin of inexperienced and/or overseas developers. You will choose poorly and you have to be ok with that. Create a process where you can let go the developers who don't work out and retain those who do easily. Parallelize this process if possible. Your local college, local programming user groups, and online contract work websites may be good places to stat looking.
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#17> You can get fantastic [design] work for the price of a beer – definitely for under $20.
Bullshit.
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#18> You can get fantastic [design] work for the price of a beer – definitely for under $20. Bullshit.
Your evidence-based, nuanced response is most helpful, thank you. Are you a designer by chance?
(Someimes good enough is good enough)
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#19> You can get fantastic [design] work for the price of a beer – definitely for under $20. Bullshit.
Your evidence-based, nuanced response is most helpful, thank you. Are you a designer by chance? (Someimes good enough is good enough)
> > fantastic [design] work...
> (Someimes good enough ...
Can you see the problem here?
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#20The things that irked me most about this terrible article have to do with the absence of any real product that "startup" has to offer, and when it does talk about making a product it's more a cumbersome afterthought than anything else.
Don't I need a product? Nah, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Hey, just outsource that onerous coding task to some monkey, it's not important.
Don't get me wrong, not every founder needs to be able to do technical stuff. But I believe some understanding of what it is that you want to build is essential. If I had a cent for every time some "ideas guy" asks me to think through his entire product for the first time and then build it for a couple hundred bucks I'd have ...more than 20 cents I think. For some reason the same cheapness showcased in the article always coincides with the most clueless people.