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Wow, wrong again. The article is total BS and the title is nothing more than link bait. Every successful startup founder I know list a passion for the domain
by d3x 16y ago
Wow, wrong again. The article is total BS and the title is nothing more than link bait. Every successful startup founder I know list a passion for the domain as one of their keys to success.
Basically what this article boils down to IMHO is "when shit gets hard just run, or better yet just dont do it because it might get hard"
And as for the 6 solutions she proposes... well those are dumb to. If people focus on how much work a startup is then they are much more likely to talk themselves out of it. I rather follow the advice of people like Steve Blank (customer development) and PG - How to start a startup (http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)
Maybe we should take another piece of advice from this lady that obviously knows nothing about successful products and just forget passion to "Follow the Money" as she put it.
- chc 16y agoNo, d3x, you are mistaken about what the article says. You are arguing that passion is important. The article doesn't dispute that. It is categorically not saying that you should do things you aren't passionate about. It's saying that there are many business possibilities related to any given "passion," and the first one that comes to mind is just the most obvious one, not necessarily the best one or the one most closely aligned with what you're passionate about. > Maybe we should take another piece of advice from this lady that obviously knows nothing about successful products Amy actually has a number of successful products to her name. See http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products/ http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products/