[HN Gopher] Signs that a business idea will probably fail
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Signs that a business idea will probably fail
Author : spking
Score : 53 points
Date : 2020-05-03 15:58 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| syllogism wrote:
| I very much disagree with:
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| > 7. You are operating mainly on assumptions
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| You'll always be operating mainly on assumptions. Everyone will.
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| It does help to check your assumptions against external things,
| so if you're wrong, you can notice faster. But even the process
| of noticing that the data is confusing is like 99.99% rationalism
| and only 0.01% empiricism.
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| danieltillett wrote:
| Not a bad post. One suggestion that has worked for me to stop me
| working on dozens of ideas at once is to write them down in
| detail in an ideas diary. This seems to take away most of the
| desire to start working on the idea right now.
| tluyben2 wrote:
| Do you later execute any of them? I feel I need the optimism
| that I only have when I do not see the details clearly yet to
| start something.
| samtho wrote:
| > 2. You are working on more than 1 thing
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| This is so true it's almost a cliche. Too often have I been in
| organizations that try to do a little of everything I hoped to
| eventually find something that sticks and it has almost never
| worked out.
| rickpmg wrote:
| > That's why entrepreneurs, myself included, waste years of their
| lives on shitty ideas that will never work, following the popular
| trend of "ideas don't matter, only execution matters".
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| The saying has to do with just having an idea is worthless in
| itself, you have to do something with that idea.
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| He interprets it as a shitty idea will be successful if executed
| well.
|
| Wow.
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