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Lean Startup is Hard

1 points by grigy 15y ago

tdr 15y ago
This is a sad post, taking it's from an entrepreneur. You sure don't want to be in the pessimistic/negative mindset. Finding right people for customer interviews is hard If one can't find them, how can one validate the idea, tweak it and ultimately find customers? Conducting customer interviews is hard How else can you close a sale with the potential customers? Figuring out MVP is hard How does one manage project management, not to mention a business without requirement analysis and prioritization? Also, a great question to answer: would you use it like that? Designing experiments for validated learning is hard It's all about risk/reward. Again, this is not the mindset for entrepreneurship. Pivoting is hard How else can one better grow the business, but to understand the market? Informed-optimism is the way to go! So man-up, if you really believe in your product, you will do it. Also, I don't think more frameworks are what we need. Guidelines are good, so to know what to keep focus on. Besides this you only need discipline *I'm not an accomplished entrepreneur, so take this with a grain of salt. But this is how I feel now. And that's what worked for me before.
- grigy 15y ago
  Right, it's from wantrepreneur. The post just tries to highlight the areas that are hard to me as a developer. And I think most of technical people face with this.
  - tdr 15y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582 is a great post featured today. It's mainly focusing on depression but I think this is useful to any period of "tough luck" (technical issues included). The best parts are the solution(s) and interpretation of the slow-periods: it's probably a sign you need to take a step back, see the whole picture and adjust accordingly to your goals. Reinvent and build! Also, you might want to couple with a friend that has complementary skills, i.e. the ones you are not strong at (the whole point against the single-founder). If not, at least keep a constant connection to other founders. Good luck!

1 points by grigy 15y ago

tdr 15y ago

This is a sad post, taking it's from an entrepreneur. You sure don't want to be in the pessimistic/negative mindset. Finding right people for customer interviews is hard If one can't find them, how can one validate the idea, tweak it and ultimately find customers? Conducting customer interviews is hard How else can you close a sale with the potential customers? Figuring out MVP is hard How does one manage project management, not to mention a business without requirement analysis and prioritization? Also, a great question to answer: would you use it like that? Designing experiments for validated learning is hard It's all about risk/reward. Again, this is not the mindset for entrepreneurship. Pivoting is hard How else can one better grow the business, but to understand the market? Informed-optimism is the way to go! So man-up, if you really believe in your product, you will do it. Also, I don't think more frameworks are what we need. Guidelines are good, so to know what to keep focus on. Besides this you only need discipline *I'm not an accomplished entrepreneur, so take this with a grain of salt. But this is how I feel now. And that's what worked for me before.

grigy 15y ago
Right, it's from wantrepreneur. The post just tries to highlight the areas that are hard to me as a developer. And I think most of technical people face with this.
- tdr 15y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582 is a great post featured today. It's mainly focusing on depression but I think this is useful to any period of "tough luck" (technical issues included). The best parts are the solution(s) and interpretation of the slow-periods: it's probably a sign you need to take a step back, see the whole picture and adjust accordingly to your goals. Reinvent and build! Also, you might want to couple with a friend that has complementary skills, i.e. the ones you are not strong at (the whole point against the single-founder). If not, at least keep a constant connection to other founders. Good luck!