Best of Entrepreneurship — 2023

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   Community Picks·3y

   10 lessons from successful one-person startups

   Learn lessons from successful one-person startups, including the importance of shipping fast, making small bets, marketing effectively, working through failure, and focusing on unfair advantages and passions. Discover how side hustles can provide stability and high income while allowing for creativity and ownership. Tips for managing a full-time job and side ventures include maintaining consistency, choosing one thing at a time, having a marketing strategy, and protecting mental health.

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   Substack·3y

   How I quit my $600k data engineering job at Airbnb and made $600k in 7 months from content creation and teaching

   The author quit their $600k data engineering job at Airbnb and made $600k in 7 months from content creation and teaching. They were inspired by living with YouTubers and wanted to have complete ownership of their ideas. They launched a data engineering boot camp and created long-form valuable content. They also marketed their boot camp and made improvements to their product during different iterations. Despite incurring expenses, they achieved a net profit of $539,065.

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   David Heinemeier Hansson·3y

   Not everyone can be the best

   There's no 90-minute clock that ends with a look at the score of goals to determine the winner. There's no grueling medical licensing examination to bar entry to the profession. The world is a better place because the art and science of instructing computers to do our bidding isn't gated by guardians of a guild.

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   Matt Rickard·3y

   Reasons To Do a Startup

   Patrick Collison’s personal site, Stripe, has a page for ‘Reasons to Start a Startup’ It provides some life advice for readers aged 10-20, but under the 20-30 section, he puts, “If you're 20–30: I don't know yet: I plan to think about this when I'm 35-40.

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   Pointer·3y

   The Surprising Power of Documentation

   Every hour invested into documentation by anyone saves literally x100 productivity hours across the company. Documentation is your secret weapon, the unsung hero of your startup, the gray knight. It eradicates guesswork and reinvention of the wheel.

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   Hacker Noon·3y

   Learn by Concept: A New Way to Learn

   An application called 'Learn by Concept' aims to demystify the learning process by streamlining complex educational content into digestible concepts. It offers tailored user experience and combines pull learning with adaptive learning for a personalized educational journey. The application is available in English for Android devices, with a French version coming soon.

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