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TLDR: Pre-product-market fit (childhood) is not equal to post-product-market fit (adulthood) — and trying to clone an adult company without true product-market

TLDR: Pre-product-market fit (childhood) is not equal to post-product-market fit (adulthood) — and trying to clone an adult company without true product-market fit yourself significantly increases odds of never reaching product-market fit. __ While there likely endless list of advice on reaching product-market fit, to me, advise given by Richard Wiseman in his book titled “The Luck Factor” feels like the most generalized. TLDR is lucky people: (0) are social and intentionally seek out new connections; (1) maximize chance opportunities, they’re not fixated on a grand plan; (2) nurture and listen to their intuition; (3) expect good fortune; (4) find the good in bad situations. Here are links to: - http://richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf http://richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf - https://youtube.com/watch?v=WizT_VdtOYM https://youtube.com/watch?v=WizT_VdtOYM On a side note, never been able to live in Bay Area, but really enjoy startups. If anyone has any suggestions beyond HN for startup related online communities that are friendly to anonymous users, please comment below.

moneywoes 4y ago
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- O__________O 4y ago
  Unclear what you intended to express via “following” — are you saying building community of followers is a route to finding a startup community open anonymous users? If not, what did you mean?
  - DeltaCoast 4y ago
    I think they meant they are following the activity on this comment. More common on sites like reddit where commenting gives you notifications on a thread.
    - O__________O 4y ago
      Agree that’s possible, though tried to think of a more valuable reasoning. To me, posting comments with notes for yourself is basically spam, especially comment like “following” - which adds less value than just upvoting a comment; to follow comment, just click the timestamp to bookmark it and/or sign-in, upvote it, then look through your upvoted comments in your profile.
      - ROTMetro 4y ago
        Woah dude. Calm down. From your parent comment...find the good.
        O__________O 4y ago
        Trying to find the best possible reading of a comment does not mean ignoring the literal meaning of a comment. If the comment was, as speculated, a reminder for the user, it’s not appropriate and counter to HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - gnicholas 4y ago
        I think this is what 'favoriting' comments is for. Much easier to find than sifting through all comments ever upvoted. Your bookmark idea is also a good one.

moneywoes 4y ago

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O__________O 4y ago
Unclear what you intended to express via “following” — are you saying building community of followers is a route to finding a startup community open anonymous users? If not, what did you mean?
- DeltaCoast 4y ago
  I think they meant they are following the activity on this comment. More common on sites like reddit where commenting gives you notifications on a thread.
  - O__________O 4y ago
    Agree that’s possible, though tried to think of a more valuable reasoning. To me, posting comments with notes for yourself is basically spam, especially comment like “following” - which adds less value than just upvoting a comment; to follow comment, just click the timestamp to bookmark it and/or sign-in, upvote it, then look through your upvoted comments in your profile.
    - ROTMetro 4y ago
      Woah dude. Calm down. From your parent comment...find the good.
      - O__________O 4y ago
        Trying to find the best possible reading of a comment does not mean ignoring the literal meaning of a comment. If the comment was, as speculated, a reminder for the user, it’s not appropriate and counter to HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - gnicholas 4y ago
      I think this is what 'favoriting' comments is for. Much easier to find than sifting through all comments ever upvoted. Your bookmark idea is also a good one.