dereking

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by dereking 12y ago
wow amazing story, thanks for all the detail. Very enjoyable to read. Quick question, whats most influential book you read? (in terms of decisions or directions you took with CloudFlare)
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by dereking 12y ago
Early stage?
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by dereking 12y ago
Seconded
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by dereking 12y ago
Sorry to hear that man, I hope things will pickup for you mate.
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by dereking 12y ago
Thanks buddy great advice!
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by dereking 12y ago
How did you go about gathering customers? Also, what are the 3 main lessons you learned from the other failed startups?
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by dereking 12y ago
what type of startup is it? SaaS?
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by dereking 12y ago
How big is your team?
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by dereking 12y ago
What stage are you in? early days?
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Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?
116 points by dereking 12y ago|94 comments
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by dereking 12y ago
tru dat :)
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by dereking 12y ago
You touched on another opened wound - "falling in love with the idea over time" For me I experienced the opposite. A while back we were working on and idea which we believed to have a lot of potential and opportunities to do somet
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by dereking 12y ago
Good point - my same process of thought https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080740
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by dereking 12y ago
I do very much agree with "you are less likely to understand the problem" . That being said however, the contrary also appears true - I doubt the founders of Uber knew much about the taxi industry for example, but yes, they exper
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by dereking 12y ago
Very true, I have always had the same perception maybe even treated it as an undisputed cliché in every startup pitch. But as time goes on, I seem to be getting more cynical to the perception and start believing a lot of the ideas are just
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by dereking 12y ago
> Both are very likely to fail Applies if the execution and luck of the founders is rather poor - something that will normally be true in all cases. My question focuses on the likelihood of success based solely on the method of idea acqu
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Ask HN: Do forced startup ideas work?
13 points by dereking 12y ago|21 comments
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How can you tell if a person is a programmer? - Stack Overflow(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by dereking 16y ago|1 comments