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My failed bootstrapped startup: a retrospective.

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Re: My failed bootstrapped startup: a retrospective.

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Best of luck on your next startup. I honestly think that in the end you just had to ask yourself if you were willing to spend the next 10 years of your life working on Beautiful Savings. If your answer is "no" then obviously, pouring more time and effort into that startup seems painful. There's no point iterating continuously on a solution for a problem that you're not dedicated to solving.

I think though once you find that idea that you're genuinely excited and passionate about, you'll find that failure only occurs when you decide to stop iterating. If a person has a solid idea and solid execution, I find it hard to believe that the end result will be graded an "F", more likely it'll be a C or D, unless you are very very unlucky. The idea is the that the next iterations bring it to an A or B.

Re: My failed bootstrapped startup: a retrospective.

#52
post #32

He writes: "I dropped MongoDB in favor of using a relational database" I wonder what made him abandon a perfectly good datastore in favor of a SQL thing, because everybody knows that http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ ;-)

Lol, love that vid. :) Actually I happened to have gone down the same road as Rob Conery: http://wekeroad.com/building-things/tekpub-a-six-pack-and-yo... Except in my case, since I was learning as I went, I didn't have time to figure out why the less-mature technologies weren't working just right. Or I'd look at a problem and see it solved nicely for relational DBs, but still needing some manual work to make it work…

In my new sideproject I'm using MongoDB for the first time in my life. It works well and I haven't run into any obstacles yet; however, the data model for this webapp is trivially simple.
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