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There's me. No employees ;) When I started working in 2011 at an awesome startup [1], my first performance review included "be more up to date with industry ne
by tajen 11y ago
There's me. No employees ;)
When I started working in 2011 at an awesome startup [1], my first performance review included "be more up to date with industry news, frameworks, practices".
I started reading HN all the time. I'm not so passionate with code so I didn't succeed to read /r/programming as much. About 5000 articles later, I've started my own company.
Thanks to common advice on HN/by pg, I've published my MVP when I was still ashamed of the product. Did things that didn't scale. Got revenue from month 3. Bootstrapped instead of raising funds. Heroku'ed instead of OVHing. Of course I didn't apply advice in an orderly manner, which caused me to build a product before finding customers, or targetting B2B instead of B2C-then-B2B, etc. but my startup is well alive.
Thank you, vibrant community!
[1] I don't write the name because their employment contract includes an evasive confidentiality clause.