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Max Hodak - Advice for prospective startup founders

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This used to be an unlisted post that I referred to people who emailed me asking for advice. I think it holds up relatively well with several years of hindsight, so I've added it to the main index of articles. Hey, you’ve asked for startup advice! Read this first and if at the end you have more specific questions, I’ll try to answer them. The first thing to know is that I’m really bad at evaluating startup ideas, so asking me what I think of yours is probably not going to be that useful. I might have strong opinions but they’re just as likely to be wrong as right. Two big reasons for this are that I don’t know you (your background, your strengths, your weaknesses) and I probably don’t know your space. Even if it superficially looks like I’m in a similar space, there’s lots of nuance in the fine structure of markets and I’m probably too far away to know what you’re doing well enough to give tactical advice. If you’re in school right now and thinking about starting a company, one thing I

Max Hodak - Advice for prospective startup founders Max Hodak - Writings Advice for prospective startup founders February 2016 This used to be an unlisted post that I referred to people who emailed me asking for advice. I think it holds up relatively well with several years of hindsight, so I've added it to the main index of articles. Hey, you’ve asked for startup advice! Read this first and if at the end you have more specific questions, I’ll try to answer them. The first thing to know is that I’m really bad at evaluating startup ideas, so asking me what I think of yours is probably not going

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