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Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by theteapot »

j45 wrote: post #964
rapind wrote: post #704

> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. This is just startup porn. It’s the same in any category (make money flipping houses!, crypto!, etc.) As a rule of thumb,…

Anyone who thinks working from a beach is possible has never tried. The screen isn't always readable. And many people who sit nearby aren't working and maybe living and making memories.

Lifeguards. Ice-cream salespeople. Pamela Anderson. FALSE!

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by theteapot »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #434
mnky9800n wrote: post #389

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Unfortunately another component of the Nordic model that makes it work is that everybody trusts the government. This is what makes the Nordic model hard to translate to other settings in my opinion.

They're high trust societies in general, partially because they're small monocultures. As Robert Putnam's research shows, in multicultural societies, especially large ones, trust rapidly declines, surprisingly even within cultural groups. Trust in government falls even more rapidly as each group starts to perceive those in power as being more favorable to one group or another, even if those in power are from their ow…

Don't mistake trust for tacit consent. Trust is never valid in politics.

Re: I am done. I give up

#993

Post by monkeybusiness1 »

Amigo, stay strong. we generated 200k in revenue in our first year by burning through 100k. Now we have no liquidity, and no investor wants to seed us further. our revenue is going to drop and we are literally not able to pay our people. I am millionaire on paper, and broke irl :)

Feels bad to fail now, but it is what it is.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by PovilasID »

I had a couple of projects that failed. I still think I could have increased my odds of succeeding by putting in more effort but at that point I was too drained to even try. I remember showing research paper to one of decision makers and them saying 'I do not believe this' without even looking at it. I knew then that I was done. That did not have enough energy to try to enter a new market and build a new business model.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by _448 »

moneywoes wrote: post #524
ht85 wrote: post #132

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Completely agree. Am on my 3rd company, all of them have reached profitability fairly easily. If you don't want to rely on luck, you have to work from the bottom. The VC, top down approach is very risky indeed, but a different game exists. Finding people who have problems that could be solved through better software is not hard. Listen to them. Make their life easier. Generalize, improve, start selling to other peopl…

Where are you finding these customers? May I ask what industries you’ve targeted? Businesses or Customers?

> May I ask what industries you’ve targeted?

Education and general SMEs.

> Businesses or Customers?

B2B, B2C and also B2B2C.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by throw10920 »

lallysingh wrote: post #784
throw10920 wrote: post #725

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Developers are also the kind of people who will refuse to pay money for or use proprietary software on principle - regardless of price! I constantly see people on HN suggesting (often highly immature) open-source alternatives to free or reasonably-priced proprietary software for no other reason than the fact that it's open-source . Just like being an author, it's hard to make a living writing (books : software) unles…

Proprietary software risks lock in. Most developers experience the pain of that eventually. You can use that stuff safely if you can survive losing it and continue reasonably (e.g., switch to Emacs or Jenkins). If you can't, it's a huge risk.

> Proprietary software risks lock in.

This has nothing to do with proprietary software. Sublime Text, for instance, is proprietary software, but there is zero lock-in because it operates on plain text files. This argument is invalid.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by throw10920 »

hahajk wrote: post #823
lallysingh wrote: post #784

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Proprietary software risks lock in. Most developers experience the pain of that eventually. You can use that stuff safely if you can survive losing it and continue reasonably (e.g., switch to Emacs or Jenkins). If you can't, it's a huge risk.

Furthermore, getting new software approved at a big corp can already be a hassle. But at all the places I've worked, seeking approvals for and opening up a funding line to pay for a license increases the hassle 10x.

This has nothing to do with selling to individual developer-users.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by j45 »

theteapot wrote: post #991
j45 wrote: post #964

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Anyone who thinks working from a beach is possible has never tried. The screen isn't always readable. And many people who sit nearby aren't working and maybe living and making memories.

Lifeguards. Ice-cream salespeople. Pamela Anderson. FALSE!

Don’t forget about regular interruptions by the beach sales team network if you end up on a resort there part of the beach path is public access.

Having done enough of the travel to paradise to work to realize for me that it doesn’t provide either with enough depth, and if I like deep experiences I should consider that.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by goozfrahbahh »

tayolo12345 wrote: post #945
botswana99 wrote: post #901

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I have had anxiety/depression too my whole life. Took me years to understand it and figure out a path forward. Therapy, meds helped a lot. And it took me decades to get the skill and perspective to start a company. Life is pretty long, if you spend 5-10 years dealing with depression -- you still have a 30 years of work to try new things once you learn to deal with your biology!

TBH that's a perspective I did not have. At 27 years old I feel like I've been slow and like I'm late for some of the aspirations I've had. I tend to look at things from a daily perspective. Today and tomorrow. Thinking in decades however, reframes and somewhat changes the problems. I'll keep this in mind.

What language do you use. I'm willing to help push for free if I know the language

Re: I am done. I give up

#1000

Post by bennysonething »

oska wrote: post #967
bennysonething wrote: post #874

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You are completely correct. I hate this stuff that's peddled on YouTube, it's pretty simple, ask yourself what do they get out of telling you this if they are making so much money doing it. They are making money selling you courses. What made me more susceptible I think is that my father made his money grinding up, buying a few flats , moving into full on property development. I paid no attention to his business unti…

I appreciated your comment. However with respect to what your Dad told you : > "son, the bank manager is my boss, he can call in my loans any time" that would have been true for him (being in property development). But there are people who build successful businesses or just work for themselves who never go into substantial debt and thus are free of any such 'creditor boss'.

True. Though anyone I know who is owns a business uses debt to grow it. But you make a fair point.
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