Most startup failure is self-inflicted theater — business plans, fake teams, premature scale, hubris — so strip away the performance and focus on the real work that moves you forward.
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Spending all your time doing tech support for your own work environment This one has inflicted me a lot in the past. Since I found the solution I am no longer troubled by it. I have classified various versions of this: Techsupportis geekae Geeks like me are natural tinkerers. With Linux and Windows we are constantly …
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I want to create a series of small posts describing common Anti Patterns that can cause problems with attempting to start your own micro venture. The chief observation post for these are my own mirror, although I will also mention some that I have observed repeatedly elsewhere.
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[ Just added this to my new series on Antipatterns ] A mistake I myself have made as well as many other smalltime entrepreneurs is that we have wanted to appear like a business to early. Symptoms of this are things like: Incorporating Renting office space Buying a fax machine (You know a business needs one) Fancy …