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In 2011-2013, HN gave me the necessary understanding of business, enough that I confidently quit my employer and created my own online app. I call HN my « rogue
by tajen 9y ago
In 2011-2013, HN gave me the necessary understanding of business, enough that I confidently quit my employer and created my own online app. I call HN my « rogue MBA »:
- Major: Patrick McKenzie
- Minors: Non-factual knowledge, just a deep understanding of what is to be expected when managing a business, good and bad patterns, dozens of failure reports from other startups, why seed money isn’t necessarily a good thing and the mere existence of bootstrapping, HN gave me an intuition that is hard to describe but lead me to success.
- And with HN I have a better source of news than IT journalism, which is often 1 step behind, has their own interpretation and doesn’t have multiple points of view like the comment section on HN.
I spent 2 years reading before my first comment, because I didn’t feel legitimate commenting before creating my own startup. Now I’m a CEO ;) Thank you HN.