Agreed, building something is just the first step.
One of the marketing struggles I've had is just getting people to care. I did have a bit of an "If you build it, they will come" attitude because I had confidence in the quality of the work...but even that seems to be irrelevant if you can't get people interested.
As an introvert by nature (extrovert by necessity), I wonder what I'm missing that others seems to grasp innately, because the consequences are fatal for an entrepreneur if you can't convince others to at least try the thing you're offering.
I think it just boils down to that most of the time we are just plain wrong about what people want badly enough to change what they are doing already. Our other fallacy is that quality of work matters - like yes, kind of, but it matters far less than finding and fixing an "important" problem.
How many times have you encountered a piece of software that is utter garbage from a ui/ux/engg. perspective but gets used ALL THE TIME? plenty of b2b examples of this including back ends of banks. They are awful, but they work. The business solves a very real customer problem and the tech is just a supporting (although still critical) act. As long as the problem gets solved, the tech. does not really matter. There is obviously more nuance to this vis a vis software maintenance etc. but when starting up, the tech should matter to you less than finding a valid problem.
Just be careful if you believe the itch is the result of something you might be allergic to (e.g., food, or bug bites).
I had several bites from fire ants and ran them under hot water from the bath, which seemed to trigger (or accelerate) a full-body reaction (anaphylaxis?) and a harrowing trip to the emergency room!
Ouch. Don't use heat to combat the symptoms of the bite of any venomous animal or any other one that secrets stuff into your body (mites, mosquitoes, etc).
It's hard to tell people to do things that reduce their blood flow, because it comes with complex side effects; but definitively not do anything that increases your blood flow. (As in, if you are feeling sick, do not eat peppers either.)
Because virtually nobody is allergic to mosquito bites. Accelerating the blood flow/metabolism of someone maybe at risk for anaphylaxis (bee allergy) is extremely dangerous.
But when you have more than a few bites, you probably will not want to do that. Even more if you feel them a lot, and if you are not used to have lots of mosquito bites on you.
May I ask where / how you came about your copy? I've seen it mentioned several times but have found it difficult to locate.
(For example, the used copy on Amazon is selling for $2000!)
There are various scans online, eg [1]. Deeply ironic that the book goes for thousands of dollars today to collectors even as Klarman, in the text, warns that collectibles are a mug's game.
> I've seen it mentioned several times but have found it difficult to locate.
It's famously difficult to buy. The author is an investing billionaire so he has little financial motivation to release an updated version and many demands on his time preventing it.
For anyone thinking the not so nice version is how he really thinks, it seems instead its more of a first draft and the nice version is the one that he now agrees with.
Much better. I can appreciate how I dodged the bullet working in the film/TV business. I forget why I left, but now I remember again. Theatre is very similar btw.
Thanksfully engineering is soo much better, SW being the best to work in. As long as you can stay away from incompetent middle managers
Do you think it's better? It's twice as long and kind of seems like someone told ChatGPT to rewrite it with attitude but no new content (I know it's from 2016 and the nice version came second).
You're misusing that idiom - clearly the shorter "nice" version is the one that gets down to brass tacks (focuses on the essentials). It makes the same points in half the length.
First- and second-level American History. Each class succeeding year, I suspect, some of the students took the course just to sit in on the fallacies section. We used David Hackett Fischer's Historian's Fallacies and Copi's text to narrow some of the fallacies more precisely to history throughout the history course.
Personally, I enjoy detail-oriented activies, so software suits me just fine. But if I was going to switch to something else, I'd ask myself "What other detail-oriented industries could I thrive in?"
* Restaurant / hotel management (specifically, the atmosphere and ambience of a space)
