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I did that too. Oops. But it was actually Paul Graham's essays that made me realize I was doing the wrong thing. Oh, well it was only about a year of my life
by ryanjmo 17y ago
I did that too. Oops. But it was actually Paul Graham's essays that made me realize I was doing the wrong thing.
Oh, well it was only about a year of my life I wasted, I'm not bitter at all... seriously.
Did anyone else make this mistake? How did you realize what you were doing was the complete wrong approach?
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoAuthor of the post here. You can take some solace in the fact that some entrepreneurs never seem to learn this lesson, and fail repeatedly until they stumble into a success by chance. I touched on this in the article, but I think the VC industry can be blamed for some of this. If you start a company and raise a few million and hire a team and spend two years blowing through your cash before shutting down, it's easy to blame "execution" or hiring the wrong people, or whatever, rather than face up to the fact that you went down the wrong road from the beginning because you had a poor product/market fit. Success is a poor teacher.
- ryanjmo 17y agoWell luckily for me I did not have success ;)