Thinking your first startup idea will succeed is like walking into a gym and hoping for a six-pack when you leave.
Thinking your first startup idea will succeed is like walking into a gym and hoping for a six-pack when you leave.
No one who runs a successful company had success on their first try.
Pieter Levels' first product wasn't NomadList.
Brian Chesky's first product wasn't Airbnb.
Patrick Collison's first product wasn't Stripe.
If you truly believe your idea is a big idea, then help yourself by building several smaller products first.
Unfortunately, everyone has to get their reps in.
Whether you're at the gym or behind a computer.
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It’s good advice Ben! I have a bunch of ideas in the pipeline at the moment with the Makerpad accelerator course and am obviously drawn to the ones I think have more potential. I’ll have to keep this in mind as I start to ship. I like the idea of submitting something for the Zapier no-code competition on the 13th of April and was thinking of picking one of my projects I think have greater potential… too soon?
definitely not too soon Rich!
Good analogy, start with small weights ... push to failure.
Learn.
Adapt.
Turn up consistently and slowly increase weights and reps until you achieve your goal.
Makes me think of this article from Peter Askew: « So the urge to build arose. On nights & weekends, I’d churn out small web projects, hand coded in HTML. The first was a crude directory of bed & breakfast establishments across the globe. The topic didn’t make any sense, but it didn’t matter. I simply wanted to establish a rhythm of building. »
(https://www.deepsouthventures.com/how-on-earth/)
yes exactly! not seen this article before
Peter here.. I built a lot of random stuff way before selling onions on the internet. So much so, that it made selling onions on the internet seem passe : )
Peter! Have read the onion blog post several times :)
I like your analogy of reps, kind of like of swings of the bat or shots at goal. Every ‘overnight success’ has put in their reps.
yeh, there's always the same common denominator.