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Ask HN: What are your founder's resolutions for 2024?

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Post by virczl »

Hey everyone!

As we step into 2024, I'm curious to know what resolutions other startup founders have set for themselves.

My top resolutions: - Commit to regular posts on LinkedIn and Twitter, even if I think I'm cringe every time I do it. - Attend at least one networking event a week. - Contact much more people (prospects, partners or VCs) I've been pretty product-focused up to now to build it, but it's time to be obsessed by sales. - Exercise. This isn't really business-related, but it's more about understanding that I need to take some time for myself, because building a business is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Post by t-writescode »

I was one of many, many people laid off in 2023. I have about 6 months of unemployment, and my state supports entrepreneurship in its unemployment system; so,

I am giving myself 6-ish months to release a product enough that it can start taking income and see how it goes. That’s my mission for 2024 :)

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Post by jddj »

Can absolutely relate to the linkedin cringe.

I need to continue to increase my presence there, and I feel an almost physical resistance.

Feel dirty whenever I put my marketing hat on and wade into that pool of narcissists.

I'm seeing as many people as I can in person to try to keep myself sane, and in the meantime reminding myself that most of the stuff on there is (thankfully) paid/ghostwritten/chatgpt and not organic.

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Post by kristiandupont »

jddj wrote: post #5

Can absolutely relate to the linkedin cringe. I need to continue to increase my presence there, and I feel an almost physical resistance. Feel dirty whenever I put my marketing hat on and wade into that pool of narcissists. I'm seeing as many people as I can in person to try to keep myself sane, and in the meantime reminding myself that most of the stuff on there is (thankfully) paid/ghostwritten/chatgpt and not orga…

>I need to continue to increase my presence there

I am curious why you are concluding this if you dislike it so much? I am not judging here, I definitely recognize the feeling..

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Post by fredwu »

After having worked at many startups for two decades, most recently as CTO, I had finally started building my own SaaS (https://persumi.com, a blogging/audio platform and https://rizz.farm, a lead generation platform) in 2023. So for 2024 I'd love to start monetising them and turning them into real businesses. Fingers crossed.

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Post by vasco »

> Commit to regular posts on LinkedIn and Twitter, even if I think I'm cringe every time I do it.

Is this what people that create all Twitter and LinkedIn cringe content tell themselves? Why do it?

You really can't come up with any way to market your company that feels good? Can't you think a bit more about the problem and frame it as "what can I do that is net positive, doesn't make me feel like crap while doing it and will still get the word out"?

Why does it have to be "beat myself up continuously until I'm as bad as the other bad guys"? Is it just because it's easy to do cringe posts in 30seconds on LinkedIn? I think it is.

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