The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself. https://x.com/robinhanson/stat
A quote about startup founders building for themselves instead of studying users.
The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself. https://x.com/robinhanson/stat
This is presumably one reason people can succeed at starting startups so young, when you have to be older to do well at most other similarly complicated things. In startups the usually fatal solipsism of the young can be turned to your advantage.
The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying them and figuring out what they actually do want. But the hack for beating this is to roll with your solipsism and make something for yourself. https://x.com/robinhanson/stat
RT @paulg: The biggest mistake young founders make is a variant of this: to build something you imagine people want, instead of studying th…
This is yet another reason it's good for young founders, especially, to start by building something they themselves want. If you're the intended user, you're not going to be satisfied with vague. (Nor is any user, but at least this way you're forced to see it.)
RT @paulg: This is yet another reason it's good for young founders, especially, to start by building something they themselves want. If you…