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Re: Ask YC: Where I went wrong?

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Post by Jaggu » Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 2:28 PM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #2

First you might want to consider that you did nothing wrong. I just did kind of a recap of my startup career over on my blog at http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/10/who_me_worry.... Perhaps tonight is the time for people to think about these things. I read a really great article that was linked from here a couple of weeks ago. I'll use a baseball metaphor to describe it. I hope you'll understand the referen…

Thanks for nice input

Re: Ask YC: Where I went wrong?

#12

Post by Jaggu » Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 2:28 PM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #3

I see a trend: "Who will market for us?" The missing answer to this is the thing you're doing wrong. You! In a startup, you do everything. If you aren't willing and able (or willing to become able through self-education or taking classes), then you shouldn't be in a startup...or you need to partner with a person who is capable of and willing to do the things you can't or won't do. It's that simple. You have to build…

Yep, In startup we have to do everything ourself but Marketing is something you learn over the time and thro' connection. Yep I am weak at that and that is my main problem.

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