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19 Not leveraging / building upon an unfair advantage — Network, Contacts, Insider information, Access. 20 Listening to anecdotal stories of others just to fin
by marban 7y ago
19 Not leveraging / building upon an unfair advantage — Network, Contacts, Insider information, Access.
20 Listening to anecdotal stories of others just to find excuses for the failures you made in 1-19.
- baxtr 7y ago19 sounds like consulting BS 20 is just awesome!
- hn_throwaway_99 7y ago> Not leveraging / building upon an unfair advantage — Network, Contacts, Insider information, Access. Lol. Pretty much by your definition all advantages are "unfair", but absolutely, yes, if you don't leverage your network and contacts you'll likely fail. But more importantly, I think if you think of "network and contacts" as some sort of shady underworld, you're already screwed. Your network is mostly people you want to work with, and more importantly people who want to work with you. Heck, one major purpose of YC is to give the benefit of an amazing network to folks that otherwise wouldn't have access.