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You need luck to become a unicorn startup. You don’t need luck to build a one-person online business, only hard work.
by HatchedLake721 7y ago
You need luck to become a unicorn startup. You don’t need luck to build a one-person online business, only hard work.
- MiSeRyDeee 7y agoHard work itself means clearly nothing. You need to work hard into right direction. And getting into right direction requires certain amount of luck.
- Enginerrrd 7y agoIf you're relying on luck, you're headed in the wrong direction. I was very late in the game, at least 2 years past the big market boom in my area of expertise, but I saw that the momentum was there to keep carrying on. I was working during those two years to be ready to fully launch, and I'm now making a modest but comfortable $200k/yr in a place with moderate cost of living. If this hadn't come along, I had several backup plans I could turn into a viable business. You have to learn to see the money and take the money, but that's a learnable skillset. I also had an uncle that just had a nose for what the next big thing was going to be. He made more money than I do, but he knew what the next big thing was going to be because he learned everything he could about small reaches from his current operation and talked to everyone.
- orasis 7y agoSuccessful solo entrepreneur here - I agree 100%. Owning a niche is based on experience. I could restart at 0 in my market and be back to profitable in a year.