[HN Gopher] The Social Radars: Conversations with Startup Founders
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The Social Radars: Conversations with Startup Founders
Author : pg
Score : 94 points
Date : 2023-03-15 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| dbtl wrote:
| Woop! Just what I need!
|
| As Founders at Work has been mentioned, I will chip in with
| Coders at Work, which is brilliant and inspired by FaW - it
| includes many of the OGs of programming:
| https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Progr...
| paulgb wrote:
| For those who still use RSS:
| https://feeds.captivate.fm/thesocialradars/
| [deleted]
| tosh wrote:
| Related: Founders at Work (2007) [0] is a great read. Looking fwd
| to tune in to the podcast this weekend.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_at_Work
| marban wrote:
| There's a whole ...at Work series. Though 'Founders' is still
| the best. Read them all.
| mdorazio wrote:
| Any chance they break out of the survivorship bias bubble in
| their discussions? I largely stopped listening to Acquired
| because of that. I want more stories about startups that failed
| while doing seemingly the right thing, and fewer about startups
| that probably got lucky.
| JohnFen wrote:
| > I want more stories about startups that failed
|
| Yes, this!
|
| Success stories are fun and all, but there's not much that can
| be usefully learned from them. The failures are where the
| lessons are.
|
| "Make your own mistakes, not someone else's."
| peoplenotbots wrote:
| start up founders suffer from a sophistic case of protagonist
| syndrome.
| s1k3 wrote:
| You know what I'd listen to is a podcast of just normal
| founders. I'd love to just hear about people like me, not the
| 1% on either side.
| dang wrote:
| I agree that failures are interesting, but the bias problem
| doesn't go away. Reasons people give for why they failed are no
| more reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded (or
| anything else, for that matter). We're good story-tellers and
| bad reason-knowers.
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| I often have this feeling when reading "why my startup failed"
| blog posts (how do they know?!). Which doesn't mean they aren't
| worth reading!
| JohnFen wrote:
| > Reasons people give for why they failed are no more
| reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded
|
| 100% true.
|
| That's why when you learn about other ventures, successful or
| not, what the founders say are the important features aren't
| really the part that you should pay the most attention to.
| O__________O wrote:
| Agree, if there was a proven and repeatable method of doing
| (or not doing) anything that produced significant value, it
| would rapidly be adopted (or blocked) -- and as result, offer
| diminishing (if not negative) returns.
| ed wrote:
| This.
|
| And "What did you do right?" is often informative, regardless
| of overall success.
| michaeladas wrote:
| Any podcast recs of interviews and stories like this (i.e.
| podcasts about start ups that took the "right path" but still
| failed?)
| slugiscool99 wrote:
| so true - way more to learn from failures than successes
| Firmwarrior wrote:
| I started following a lot of indie games on Reddit, and it
| was a huge bummer to watch great-looking, fun, polished games
| crash and burn time after time
|
| It definitely scared me away from investing in my own game
| ideas.. not sure if that was a good thing or not
| galdor wrote:
| Failures are always interesting, but it is incredibly hard to
| pinpoint _why_ it failed. Lots of things can go wrong, and it
| is usually a combination of factor that kills a company.
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| I was once told only to take advice from people who succeeded
| repeatedly at a task. Building a company and succeeding is
| impressive, but there may be a lot more factors in play than
| just the actions of the founders. Building several successful
| companies makes the difference.
| codetrotter wrote:
| It'd also be interesting to hear from someone who succeeded
| once but then repeatedly failed, and then succeeded one or
| more times again
| rileyphone wrote:
| First pg submission in over 3 years. The things you do for love!
| seizethecheese wrote:
| The things you do for mutual respect...
| [deleted]
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