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Startups are ridiculously hard. The biggest mistake young founders and companies make is going heads down in code for 3, 6, 12 months without marketing and sale
by nodesocket 9y ago
Startups are ridiculously hard. The biggest mistake young founders and companies make is going heads down in code for 3, 6, 12 months without marketing and sales. I've been there and failed.
What is the market? Is it a good one? Open source while incredible, is damn difficult to build a proper business.
I'll reiterate my stance that the best products with the best technology often times don't win. That doesn't mean that you should not strive for perfection in products, it just means there is more to the game than that.
- Permit 9y agoThis comment seems almost entirely inapplicable to the article. Where did you get the sense that the founder[s] spent too much time working on the technology? There are a number of reasons for which Gittip/Gratipay may have failed, but "Focusing too much on the tech" doesn't seem to be one of them.
- swang 9y agoProbably because of this paragraph from the article: > At Gratipay we’ve spent the past year gearing up to relaunch with a renewed focus on open source. However, funding open source is almost entirely about marketing, and we spent most of the past year writing code instead. File this one under, “open source needs all the skill sets,” but also, “startups need all the skill sets.”
- nodesocket 9y agoBingo. @Permit go back and read it again.