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Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psycholog
by skarmklart 13y ago
Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge.
Give me the specs for a $19.9 ebook on that, please :) I've been of the mind to write something like that for a while.
- hasenj 13y agoHaha, a book would be nice, but I think really the only way to learn this is by experiencing it. The book should be more of a guide about how to put yourself in the environment that forces you to learn this stuff.
- dasil003 13y agoYes, I agree you can only actually learn by doing. No amount of book-reading will equal your first startup in terms of practical knowledge and how to apply it. That said, one's own startup is necessarily narrow in scope and there is a ton that the active practitioner can learn from anecdotes from other startups, especially across different markets and industries, and with different talent and network constraints.
- skarmklart 13y agoMy signup page, FWIW: http://dontkillyourcofounder.com/ http://dontkillyourcofounder.com/
- kriro 13y ago"Running Lean" (O'Reilly) is excellent and Ash has a bunch of useful videos as well. I think it's currently the best "business side of a startup" book out there. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimRGeoiwUPmIddym-HdaCg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimRGeoiwUPmIddym-HdaCg "The Lean Startup" by Ries is also good but RL is more condensed (lean?!) imo "Startup Owner's Manual" is also good and they have a course on edx iirc Edit: It's a udacity class, close enough. Link: https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245 https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245