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How to make failure sustainable (and career entrepreneurship possible)(thestartuptoolkit.com)
54 points by robfitz 15y ago|3 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Regarding the site slowness: A while back, I changed the blog from a subdomain to a directory and didn't update the caching. It was caching pages at the wrong URL and thus being entirely useless. It's fixed now -- sorry for the annoyance to
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by robfitz 15y ago
Hey Joe -- thanks for taking the time to share your story w/ me. Both the tale & the app are great. Hopefully the HN crowd can figure out how to help in some other wonderful & unexpected ways ;) (hint hint)
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A man, a mop, a year, and an app(thestartuptoolkit.com)
257 points by robfitz 15y ago|27 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Yeah, I tweet it and post a subset (maybe 1 in 5) to HN if I think it's good and relevant to most people. I haven't really dug into RSS metrics, but you get those in realtime via feedburner, so that could be another valid source.
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by robfitz 15y ago
I've been trying to start on videos[1] because I also feel it's got a lot of potential reach. Even though the view numbers are significantly lower on my videos than my blog, I get many more emails and comments about the videos. I guess peop
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by robfitz 15y ago
Hey JS, I think you've got two fallacies baked into your perspective. First, that blogs have to be unprofessional. That's simply not true -- for more "serious" industries, you can treat the content like mini-whitepapers or slices of a confe
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by robfitz 15y ago
Hey Ray, thanks. I've tried chartbeat, gosquared, and google's realtime. They're all fine, but now I mostly just get it via twitter. It's not "analytics" per se, but the first 10 minutes worth of retweets is a better indicator of whether a
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Blogging for your business is worth it even if you get no traffic(thestartuptoolkit.com)
52 points by robfitz 15y ago|17 comments
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A blind, forceful kick toward the sphinx(thestartuptoolkit.com)
3 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Thanks, Siqi - totally agreed. There's always a process behind the person and you get a lot less heartbreak and vitriol when focused on fixing the former.
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by robfitz 15y ago
Haha, yeah, outside perspective is priceless. Even being able to ask someone for help is a step in the right direction, since it suggests (at least to) that you've identified a problem outside of your own incompetence ;)
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by robfitz 15y ago
If this struck a chord, you should definitely check out Steven Pressfield's Do the Work book linked in the post. His reading of it is super awesome.
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by robfitz 15y ago
Shoot me an email (in profile) if it would be useful to bounce some ideas around about it.
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The problem isn’t you. The problem is the problem.(thestartuptoolkit.com)
53 points by robfitz 15y ago|11 comments
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A man, a mop, a year, and an app – Joseph Hill on Aeir Talk(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
4 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
This is now my new failure mantra: "At least I haven't personally disappointed and been individually called out as a nontrepreneur by Steve Blank" ;)
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How I come up with (and kill) new startup ideas(thestartuptoolkit.com)
49 points by robfitz 15y ago|4 comments
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Choose wars based on strengths & battled based on weaknesses(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
20 points by robfitz 15y ago|2 comments
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Cooking up a startup (plus a bagel recipe and a game about peaches)(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
3 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Completely agreed. If you don't have a product, the benefits are more along the lines of finding your voice, learning what resonates with the people you care about, and getting comfortable putting content out where people will see it. I men
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What I learned from a month of blogging and 250k visits(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
135 points by robfitz 15y ago|24 comments
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In Praise of the Side Project(daveduarte.co.za)
3 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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Investing in a personal toolbox(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
5 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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What could convince a developer to invest their time in your platform?(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
13 points by robfitz 15y ago|1 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
I didn't really mention timescales, but in my case he added the various complications gradually over about 4 years. It was never something I sat down and "learned". Whenever I started to drift away via boredom, a fun new twist would mysteri
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by robfitz 15y ago
From my perspective, it doesn't make a huge difference whether the idea was independently discovered by my dad or inspired by something he read--what matters is the effect it had on me.
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by robfitz 15y ago
I'd have to ask my mom to be totally sure, but I'd estimate I ran the machine for roughly 4 years beginning when I was 7 or 8.
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by robfitz 15y ago
I looked into this a bit (I wanted to take the same ideas and package them for elementary schools to teach to students). Vending machines are far from ideal, although they're still plausible if you have a friend who owns a car repair shop o
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My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
1060 points by robfitz 15y ago|101 comments

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