A simple heuristic that will save inexperienced startup founders from several different types of mistakes: be really cheap. This will save you from hiring too many people, from renting a fancy office, and from growing by buying users instead of making great things.
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When’s the next essay?
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Being cheap can translate into being stingy with your stock, preventing key hires. The ideas meet in understanding that your early stock isn't actually valuable and you aren't actually being cheap in skipping the best early employees.
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Good point. I definitely don't mean that. Be generous with equity.
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With a rpi4 4GB it might actually work. That with remote editing using
@code into a cheap vps. Say http://digitalocean.com .
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If it’s just a money game, big corporations will always be the winners.
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It really helps if what you offer helps others to get ahead. Eventually value seems to trump “cool”. Like FB provides to advertisers.
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You can run a significant amount cloud infrastructure off of a credit card (beware the card is now a critical part and should be monitored).
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So do you always recommend starting small and coding yourself?
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Yes! Instead of hiring like 5 people and you're just making a prototype... You don't even know how much effort everyone is putting and who needs to own how much equity and even how to handle progress issues. I think you could be a team of 3 co founders as maximum or solo
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