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My Startup Advice: Stop writing "startup advice" articles and put that energy into building your freaking product.

• swombat 16y ago
  What's the context within which this makes sense? Can you imagine a context within which it doesn't make sense? Would you advise Tim Ferris, 37Signals, Seth Godin, Andrew Warner, Paul Graham, Derek Sivers or Fred Wilson to stop writing "startup advice"? Your advice above is a great example of terrible startup advice. You're over-generalising from your personal situation and experience, you're not including any context, you're being too brief to be convincing, and you're presenting this advice as a one-line comment in an online forum, which gives it little credibility.
  • jimboyoungblood 16y ago
    The names you cite have pretty good advice to give, but they also have obvious incentives for doing so. That is, they are all trying to sell something to aspiring entrepreneurs. As are you, judging from your website. For those who are not looking to sell books, invest in the next big thing, give lectures, or provide startup consulting, "work on the product" is about the most non-terrible piece of advice anyone could possibly give.
    • fleitz 16y ago
      Followed perhaps only by the advice of "stop reading hacker news and work on your product" and "stop commenting on hacker news and work on your product"