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A comment on Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you h... by paulryanrogers on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:40PM (#33712580)
Right it's a lottery, with very expensive tickets. You may have to pay with years of your life for each one, possibly significant others.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you h... by j45 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:14AM (#33716144)
Not if you consult and find the business needs and only build wher people want and are willing to pay for.

Hitting the startup funding lottery to go on an expedition to find and build something people want is a different matter and maybe what you’re referring to, and if so, I totally agree with.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you h... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:47AM (#33719007)
> Not if you consult and find the business needs and only build wher people want and are willing to pay for.

That's only one part of the challenge. Market research is vital, yet alone is a not guaranteed success. Even if a valuable untapped market is discovered, there's more to success than just building a solution. Sales and marketing have to execute well too. A competitor from an adjacent industry could swoop in. Etc.

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