The author also mentions that negative things or problems are almost never blogged about.
I guess thats at least partially because the founders are busy fixing things and have not enough time / patience to blog about it. Positive blogs can be seen as marketing efforts and justify taking half a day off for it, but do negative ones too?
Hey Chris,
I'm the author. That was exactly the point, fed up of reading the "it's fantastic, we rock !!" posts. So just an honest feedback on our first 6 months on my 3rd startup ....
> You don't have to endure multiple "No's" trying to convince clients to accept your offering. You can find out what they need and build that.
True story here:
Client: I want it to feel like a storybook, complete with an opening page that has a child talking, and lots of animals around to make it look Snow White-ish.
Me: OK, here's exactly that.
Client: Yes, that is exactly like a storybook and has everything I asked for, but — nah, I don't want that. You're fired. I've hired another guy. Here's his design: It's a tall pink box with a bunch of unsearchable green text inside JPEGs and a couple of photos of flowers randomly dropped in.
The moral of the story is that asking people what they want does not guarantee a yes.
Hey Edward,
We're at v2, or stage 2. Hacked a small prototype to test user feedback, spoke to potential clients to get their "reception" to the idea, built it ourselves, ... And then and only then, when it passed these tests we went "serious".
So does pushing a cart, to a horse.
The problem is that OP has it backwards. He complains about how hard it is to do all the things you don't have to do.
You don't have to endure multiple "No's" finding investment; you can bootstrap or use friends and family.
You don't have to endure multiple "No's" trying to convince clients to accept your offering. You can find out what they need and build that.
You don't have to hire. If Version 1.0 of what you're building can't be built by one or two people, you may want to rethink what you're doing.
Starting a business and building software is tough enough when you do first things first. No need to pile on.