Saying something requires luck is not the same as saying it is hard. Few people seem to understand that.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Ben Franklin
Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says
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Re: Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says
#42I disliked this piece for a different reason: his attitude. No successful company was ever built by someone thinking as negatively as this guy. Sure, someone who thinks that if he creates a new facebook widget he'll retire -- that guy may need to hear this. But wait, does he? He'll figure out the problem with that soon enough. The rest of us ... do we need some smug guy telling us that the Plenty of Fish guy was just…
Perhaps, but with every media source erring on the other side of the argument, this article is simply a reality check, and has to err on the side of negativity to get its point across.
Re: Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says
#43Warning: the stove is HOT!
If this is obvious, why do we keep hearing the same stories over and over about how easy it is to succeed with software startups? The "low barrier to entry" and other stuff that's mentioned even in these comments?
Low cost of entry isn't really an advantage since everyone is experiencing it at once. Whom do you have an advantage over when we can all build the same website in the same amount of time and host it for the same amount of money?
As always, winning in this game comes down to building something unique that is also difficult for others to build, marketing, and luck. I don't think a lot people building new web apps these days understand this.