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"If you’re an Idea Person, lock yourself in a room for a couple of months and teach yourself the basics of the relevant technologies. For example, if you’re do

"If you’re an Idea Person, lock yourself in a room for a couple of months and teach yourself the basics of the relevant technologies. For example, if you’re doing a web app, learn Ruby on Rails. Build something." Alas, I learned this after my first failed venture. Now I'm a developer and love it. Note to all awesome business people that think they can kill it if only they had a developer... Go learn to code. At the very least you will learn something to throw under your project management belt. An even better outcome will be that you figure out if the venture is actually worth the trouble- It will happen a lot quicker than if you are trying to manage the idea with another person.

glimcat 13y ago
"they can kill it if only they had a" Nine times out of ten, if you find yourself thinking in this pattern, you're making excuses not to start. Find a way to get started anyway. Do something. Make a mockup out of pieces of paper. Find and talk to potential customers. There are things you can do now, and they're usually things you really should do before bringing on a developer, or taking investment, or whatever you're blocking yourself with. If you get to "if only" and stop, you may be in love with the idea of being a successful startup founder, but you're finding excuses to avoid what it means to actually become a startup founder. Or a jazz musician. Novelist. Whatever.
- solistice 13y ago
  You do really get that in every single human pursuit though. I could be so sucessful with girls only if I had a better pad/ more charisma/ more money / more hair in places it belongs. 99 out of 100 of these things will be just phony excuses, you could frankly do without. For example with hair, look at this guy: http://www.absoluteability.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/neil-strauss-before-and-after.jpg http://www.absoluteability.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ne... Hair was really not his problem, and he realized that.

glimcat 13y ago

"they can kill it if only they had a" Nine times out of ten, if you find yourself thinking in this pattern, you're making excuses not to start. Find a way to get started anyway. Do something. Make a mockup out of pieces of paper. Find and talk to potential customers. There are things you can do now, and they're usually things you really should do before bringing on a developer, or taking investment, or whatever you're blocking yourself with. If you get to "if only" and stop, you may be in love with the idea of being a successful startup founder, but you're finding excuses to avoid what it means to actually become a startup founder. Or a jazz musician. Novelist. Whatever.

solistice 13y ago
You do really get that in every single human pursuit though. I could be so sucessful with girls only if I had a better pad/ more charisma/ more money / more hair in places it belongs. 99 out of 100 of these things will be just phony excuses, you could frankly do without. For example with hair, look at this guy: http://www.absoluteability.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/neil-strauss-before-and-after.jpg http://www.absoluteability.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ne... Hair was really not his problem, and he realized that.