Thanks, I think that is a concise and helpful way of framing things! However, I have two critiques:
It confuses means and ends. For example, finding a problem that affects you personally isn’t an end. It is a means to the ends (or, really, intermediate means) of things like “make sure the problem is real”, “be able to build a good product” and “be motivated to work reasonably hard on it and not give up to easily”.
It’s too inflexible. I assume you don’t mean “Don’t compromise on any of this.” literally. Otherwise you’d be advising people to only start businesses that charge $50-250/month, for example. But I do read it as being only slightly less strong. Ie. “You should very rarely compromise on any of these points.” I disagree with that. I think that a lot of the things you listed are rather frequently things that you can ignore.
Thanks, I think that is a concise and helpful way of framing things! However, I have two critiques:
It confuses means and ends. For example, finding a problem that affects you personally isn’t an end. It is a means to the ends (or, really, intermediate means) of things like “make sure the problem is real”, “be able to build a good product” and “be motivated to work reasonably hard on it and not give up to easily”.
It’s too inflexible. I assume you don’t mean “Don’t compromise on any of this.” literally. Otherwise you’d be advising people to only start businesses that charge $50-250/month, for example. But I do read it as being only slightly less strong. Ie. “You should very rarely compromise on any of these points.” I disagree with that. I think that a lot of the things you listed are rather frequently things that you can ignore.