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0 pointschrisdbanks4y ago0 comments

Maybe I was being too subtle. I mean it sounds like offering completely random advice that has no statistically significant correlation with success, and therefore is just as likely to be wrong as right.

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Mulpze154y ago· 1 in thread

That's exactly what the author says. He does not give advice. He just give a laundry list of facts for his business.

The only advice is to not sweat over things you don't do. Do you suggest one should?

As a business owner, it resonates with me.

Brian_K_White4y ago

Guess the article was too subtle.

dvt4y ago

> offering completely random advice

To be fair, all startup advice is completely random advice. Really, there's no guaranteed rulebook for success, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

danjac4y ago

It read to me more like general advice that one should carefully examine any industry "best practice" in the light of your company's specific needs and circumstances.

So for example "we just used Heroku" might stick in the craw of developers who think AWS Lambda based microservices are the future, but for a small startup with limited resources and time Heroku is probably a safe bet.

thawaya31134y ago

Their point is that you will do many things others will tell you are “wrong”. They may be right about some and wrong about others.

You need to stop focusing on all the things you’re doing incorrectly and focus on the things you’re doing well that are working for you.

If you take any of the items they said they didn’t do as a recommendation to not do that thing then you’re missing the author’s point.

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