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Things that are extremely, trivially easy to do: 1. Throw wads of money at something. 2. Pay off politicians. 3. Shmoozing. 4. I'm the sales and idea guy.
by bugsy 15y ago
Things that are extremely, trivially easy to do:
1. Throw wads of money at something.
2. Pay off politicians.
3. Shmoozing.
4. I'm the sales and idea guy.
Things that are very hard to do:
1. Design a product that people find useful and are willing to use.
2. Design a product that people are willing to spend money on.
There's an enormous glut of VC backed companies filled with and powered by the easy trivial stuff. These folks tend not to respect engineering design and inventing skills, which they see as commodities they should be able to buy for a pittance. Then they complain that there is stiff competition for talent when designers don't choose to work for their useless startup.
- shareme 15y agoYou are being overly simplistic, but its a valid point. And quite frankly a few of us have reversed the VC/Angel criteria for picking startups and use that as an interview/offer acceptance filter... I know out of the last 3 months only one startup out of 20 made to the almost offer stage, I am awaiting them signing a big client that funds my position.. It came down to: 1 People involved. 2 Product/Company/market vision 3 User/client growth 4 Mixture of honesty and transparency..told me where they could be honest and transparent and where they could not disclose and the reasons why.