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I'm kind of curious how successful swombat is, and if he followed the strategies he's recommending to others. What I see a lot is that a lot of startup people
by gizmo 15y ago
I'm kind of curious how successful swombat is, and if he followed the strategies he's recommending to others.
What I see a lot is that a lot of startup people give startup advice in order to draw more attention to themselves and to their products/consulting gigs. When I see that swombat has two businesses and time on the side to do consulting, then that's a pretty big red flag.
- swombat 15y agoI should really take the consulting thing out. I'm spending 95% of my time on GrantTree, half a day here or there on Woobius, and no time whatsoever consulting. I've invalidated a few ideas via this approach, but right now I do have an idea that's "sticking ", so I'm following that one for now.
- swombat 15y agoI should add that yes, I follow or have followed most of the strategies I talk about, and when I haven't used them myself, I say so! My posts are based on direct personal experience. In some cases the "lesson learnt" may be anecdotal/deeply contextual, but I usually take pains to follow my own advice in http://swombat.com/2011/1/20/how-to-write-good-startup-advice-articles http://swombat.com/2011/1/20/how-to-write-good-startup-advic... and make the context clear so that the reader can decide if this is useful advice for them.
- veyron 15y agoHe probably took VC money at some point. When you are bootstrapping on your own, you throw yourself 110% at the problemvand only after you've succeeded do you think about the next thing.