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> how hard starting/running a business is That it is, but here Michael is explicit that most of the pain [0] was from doing hardware, software, and e-commerce
by ignoramous 2y ago
> how hard starting/running a business is
That it is, but here Michael is explicit that most of the pain [0] was from doing hardware, software, and e-commerce all at once. Surely, there are other relatively easier businesses in tech?
[0] Reminds me of Avery Pennarun's A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (2012), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754531
- CodeWriter23 2y agoIf it’s easy, everyone would do it.
- WJW 2y ago... by which time all the competition no longer makes it easy?
- CodeWriter23 2y agoNah the person/company willing to do the thing for the lowest margin wins out.
- goralph 2y agoWould doesn’t guarantee could
- CodeWriter23 2y agoRight. Easy guarantees would.
- spiderxxxx 2y agoIf it's easy, then there's probably not a lot of value in doing it either.
- SCUSKU 2y agoThanks for posting that article, quite a throwback -- but first I've ever encountered it. Really great piece. I do think we've all been sold on the entrepreneur vision/lifestyle, but the unsexy reality is it's an insane slog that might not even pay off. It's always good to get these reality checks from time to time.