Give Back to HN: Advice for New Entrepreneurs
TL;DR: Work smart, work hard, examine the competition, know your strengths and weaknesses and know what success and failure look like. I thought since I've been in the web game now for nearly a decade that I should give back to the community that's given me so much in a useful way, that would benefit those people who are where I was when I started out. So here's some pointers for people new to the business of doing businesses (design, marketing, building, finding clients etc) online. # Gnothi Seauton (Know Thyself) This is the single most important piece of advice I can give. As someone who's worked in agencies, worked in-house and run a business, the thing that stands out most is this: Know what you're good at, and what you're not good at That's not to say that there's things you can't do; on the contrary, I'm much of the mindset that just about anyone can do just about anything, if the
Why it failed
TL;DR: Work smart, work hard, examine the competition, know your strengths and weaknesses and know what success and failure look like. I thought since I've been in the web game now for nearly a decade that I should give back to the community that's given me so much in a useful wa
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- pwatsonwailes
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews