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Founders: failure comes with the territory(joel.is)
2 points by joelg87 15y ago|0 comments
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Does location really matter for your startup?(joel.is)
4 points by joelg87 15y ago|1 comments
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by joelg87 15y ago
I'm glad particular attention was given to the gym example in this article, or more in general "health". These days I'm generally quite disciplined with sleep and exercise, but I've been down that path of "if I skip the gym this time I'll h
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I have no idea what I am doing(joel.is)
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Why you should start marketing early(joel.is)
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by joelg87 15y ago
I love the idea of that change history for each 37signals app. We're trying to be very open with our own product, but often very small fixes or changes don't make sense as an announcement on the blog. Does anyone know where Basecamp links t
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Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup(joel.is)
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by joelg87 15y ago
Thanks! I absolutely agree. I answered a question on Quora ( http://www.quora.com/When-is-the-best-time-to-actively-publi... ) along the same lines, this is the key part of my answer: Start with 5 or 10 people and get conversations going an
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by joelg87 15y ago
I can completely empathise with you on that point, but I am not sure it should stop you going ahead. I think the important thing is the use of copy and the general feel and style of the communication you have with users. If you make it clea
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by joelg87 15y ago
Thanks Rick. I linked to it at the end but admittedly not in a very obvious way. Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, I used this technique to launch Buffer and had my first paying customer 4 days after launch. I think the key thing is to foc
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What is your "coming soon" page for?(joel.is)
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by joelg87 15y ago
Aha, thanks for that Mark, it's because we moved from Tumblr to Wordpress. Much appreciated.
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by joelg87 15y ago
Thanks Mark! I wrote this post about how I went from the idea to the first paying customer in 7 weeks: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week... I also write weekly on my personal blog and almost every post has some
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by joelg87 15y ago
Short answer: 5 months with my new startup (to reach about $1500/mo revenue). Longer answer: I've completely immersed myself in startups for around 3 years and spent a full 1.5 years on a startup which never reached ramen profitability nor
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by joelg87 15y ago
Haha, I could only hope to achieve even half of what Joel Spolsky has :) I've previously written about how I created my sleep ritual ( http://joel.is/post/5303723252/creating-a-sleep-ritual ) and what you mention about committing to too man
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What are you doing to feel uncomfortable?(joel.is)
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KEYS.css(michaelhue.com)
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by joelg87 15y ago
Yes, Foursquare would be a "social" idea in my mind. However, Dennis Crowley has had an exit previously, so I think it makes social ideas easier for him to pursue. I think social ideas with network effects are very difficult to succeed with
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Beware of the social ideas(joel.is)
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How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS(markmaunder.com)
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by joelg87 15y ago
Haha, so something like this: function try_startup() { if(!startup_succeeded) try_startup(); }
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How to start your startup in 4 steps(joel.is)
50 points by joelg87 15y ago|5 comments
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Creating a sleep ritual(joel.is)
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Buffer has helped send 100,000 tweets for people(eu.techcrunch.com)
4 points by joelg87 15y ago|2 comments
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by joelg87 15y ago
Thanks hucker, that book has gone straight into my list. Very keen to read it, as even though I wrote the post and am convinced of the concept, I feel I've only touched the surface with this kind of thinking.
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Enjoying the moment(joel.is)
27 points by joelg87 15y ago|4 comments
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Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody(visualmess.com)
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by joelg87 16y ago
I certainly made a mistake here I think. I normally try to avoid mentioning what my startup is or use examples so that it comes across as something people can relate to their own situation, and also so that it doesn't seem self-promotional,
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Giving your startup a point of view(joel.is)
19 points by joelg87 16y ago|5 comments
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How to Finish(zenhabits.net)
2 points by joelg87 16y ago|0 comments

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