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Ideas about start-ups
- gr366 17y agoReading the title I thought this would be ideas for actual products or services that a start-up could pursue. Rather it is 19 points of advice for startups to follow.
- ledger123 17y agoThat's why I first see couple of comments before jumping to the article.
- papa 17y agoGood strategy. I was expecting the same. There was an interesting link to a public google doc with a load of interesting startup/product ideas a few days back. I forgot to bookmark it and am having trouble locating it via google. Anyone know the link I'm talking about?
- SamAtt 17y agoI'm starting to think people post stuff like this just to get to the top of sites like HN. In this list I only see 2 items (Interview by E-mail and meet a potential employee's mate) that aren't common sense. The rest boils down to Work Hard, Hire great people who get along, use Social Networking and Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. All advice that's been posted here 100,000 times in the past.
- nkohari 17y agoMeeting a prospective candidate's mate might be a good idea, but at least in the US, it's illegal (or at least dangerous). To avoid discrimination claims for sexual preference, you can't even ask if the person is married or has a significant other.
- NEPatriot 17y agoYou're assuming common sense is common
- timf 17y ago"If you’re hiring someone with a significant other, you’ve got to meet that person. He or she shows a lot about your potential hire." If you're hiring, you can't ask people about their marriages, their kids, etc. Let alone meet them, what the hell.
- Estragon 17y agoGood point. And that was the only point in the page which stood out to me as interesting. Oh, well.
- JangoSteve 17y agoI think this bit of advice makes more sense if you replace "hiring someone" with "finding a cofounder" and "potential hire" with "potential cofounder".
- oceanician 17y agoNot rocket science, but good to hear repeated often all the same. For ideas see the shed load (67 just now) over at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbiw&toomany=true http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...
- inboulder 17y agoThis is some seriously trite advice, and from a spammy site no less, who upvoted this?