The Six Phases of Bootstrapping A One-Man Startup

Re:The Six Phases of Bootstrapping A One-Man Startup by idlewords on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:46AM (#740969)

This is true, but in those cases there is the perfectly respectable "N mistakes I made" format. The thing that rankles me is positive advice (you must do A and B in order to succeed at X) given by people who have just failed spectacularly at X.

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Re:The Six Phases of Bootstrapping A One-Man Startup by jacquesm on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:48AM (#740971)

Excellent point, we should be hearing more from the winners.

Still, I've been part of a couple of failed projects before I set out on my own and I'm pretty sure that I would have fared a lot worse if not for my prior experience. That saved me a ton of time and money.

I still found plenty of 'original' mistakes to make though :)

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Re:The Six Phases of Bootstrapping A One-Man Startup by donniefitz2 on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @04:40PM (#742121)

I agree that there's little value in giving advice on how to fail, but that's not what I did here. I only described what I have done so far. I was very careful about not making this post prescriptive in any way. It's descriptive only.

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