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what? It means everything. Selling lemonade from a stand can be profitable, but the skills required for that to be successful in no way transfer to running a
by runT1ME 16y ago
what? It means everything. Selling lemonade from a stand can be profitable, but the skills required for that to be successful in no way transfer to running a company that sells to every grocery store in america.
- ErrantX 16y agoThose are just the two extremes; the effort required to scale from one to the other is probably a bit too steep in that case. But if you read the post a lot of the same skills are there.
- Sukotto 16y agoInteresting you should mention that. In this talk[1], Gary Vaynerchuk describes how he started a Lemonade business, hired all his friends to run the stands, and used the skills he developed doing that (and selling trading cards at the mall) to build his family's little liquor store into "WineLibrary.com" a 60M/yr business. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447500 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447500