[HN Gopher] The Social Radars: Conversations with Startup Founders ___________________________________________________________________ The Social Radars: Conversations with Startup Founders Author : pg Score : 94 points Date : 2023-03-15 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.thesocialradars.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.thesocialradars.com) | dbtl wrote: | Woop! Just what I need! | | As Founders at Work has been mentioned, I will chip in with | Coders at Work, which is brilliant and inspired by FaW - it | includes many of the OGs of programming: | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Progr... | paulgb wrote: | For those who still use RSS: | https://feeds.captivate.fm/thesocialradars/ | [deleted] | tosh wrote: | Related: Founders at Work (2007) [0] is a great read. Looking fwd | to tune in to the podcast this weekend. | | [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_at_Work | marban wrote: | There's a whole ...at Work series. Though 'Founders' is still | the best. Read them all. | mdorazio wrote: | Any chance they break out of the survivorship bias bubble in | their discussions? I largely stopped listening to Acquired | because of that. I want more stories about startups that failed | while doing seemingly the right thing, and fewer about startups | that probably got lucky. | JohnFen wrote: | > I want more stories about startups that failed | | Yes, this! | | Success stories are fun and all, but there's not much that can | be usefully learned from them. The failures are where the | lessons are. | | "Make your own mistakes, not someone else's." | peoplenotbots wrote: | start up founders suffer from a sophistic case of protagonist | syndrome. | s1k3 wrote: | You know what I'd listen to is a podcast of just normal | founders. I'd love to just hear about people like me, not the | 1% on either side. | dang wrote: | I agree that failures are interesting, but the bias problem | doesn't go away. Reasons people give for why they failed are no | more reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded (or | anything else, for that matter). We're good story-tellers and | bad reason-knowers. | | I often have this feeling when reading "why my startup failed" | blog posts (how do they know?!). Which doesn't mean they aren't | worth reading! | JohnFen wrote: | > Reasons people give for why they failed are no more | reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded | | 100% true. | | That's why when you learn about other ventures, successful or | not, what the founders say are the important features aren't | really the part that you should pay the most attention to. | O__________O wrote: | Agree, if there was a proven and repeatable method of doing | (or not doing) anything that produced significant value, it | would rapidly be adopted (or blocked) -- and as result, offer | diminishing (if not negative) returns. | ed wrote: | This. | | And "What did you do right?" is often informative, regardless | of overall success. | michaeladas wrote: | Any podcast recs of interviews and stories like this (i.e. | podcasts about start ups that took the "right path" but still | failed?) | slugiscool99 wrote: | so true - way more to learn from failures than successes | Firmwarrior wrote: | I started following a lot of indie games on Reddit, and it | was a huge bummer to watch great-looking, fun, polished games | crash and burn time after time | | It definitely scared me away from investing in my own game | ideas.. not sure if that was a good thing or not | galdor wrote: | Failures are always interesting, but it is incredibly hard to | pinpoint _why_ it failed. Lots of things can go wrong, and it | is usually a combination of factor that kills a company. | | I was once told only to take advice from people who succeeded | repeatedly at a task. Building a company and succeeding is | impressive, but there may be a lot more factors in play than | just the actions of the founders. Building several successful | companies makes the difference. | codetrotter wrote: | It'd also be interesting to hear from someone who succeeded | once but then repeatedly failed, and then succeeded one or | more times again | rileyphone wrote: | First pg submission in over 3 years. The things you do for love! | seizethecheese wrote: | The things you do for mutual respect... | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-15 23:00 UTC)