Re:Building A Startup Backwards
by gatlin on Friday December 02, 2011 @01:08PM
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I won't pretend to be successful but many successful people I know did the following:
0) School, education, apprenticing, whatever. Helped someone else's dream along and forfeited their wants for a bit.
1) Did mind-numbing grind work for a long time.
2) At each step of the way, bemoaned that their successes and increases in expertise, skill, and profit were incremental at best.
3) Did step (2) about a brazilian times
4) At some point looked back and realized they were now successful.
Startup culture confused me for a while because of this. It seemed backward.
0) School, education, apprenticing, whatever. Helped someone else's dream along and forfeited their wants for a bit. 1) Did mind-numbing grind work for a long time. 2) At each step of the way, bemoaned that their successes and increases in expertise, skill, and profit were incremental at best. 3) Did step (2) about a brazilian times 4) At some point looked back and realized they were now successful.
Startup culture confused me for a while because of this. It seemed backward.