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How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali

@levelsio · 355.8K views · 2018-01-24 · 1:00:00

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Overview

Pieter Levels talks at Dojo Bali about building startups without venture capital through bootstrapping, persistence and learning many skills as a generalist. He reviews his own past projects.

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Pointed to as an inspiring talk for solo makers turning side projects into profitable businesses.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2021

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dharma1 · 2018-02 · Strong recommendation

Here's a recent talk by Pieter - [VIDEO] I think it's really good. Probably the best startup talk I've seen in a while. In my opinion, there are benefits to doing things alone, but you have to be able to learn a lot of things quick, have a lot of available time with few distractions, and be very focused and persistent. Cons: it's not as fun, and will probably take longer than working with people with specific talents.

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satvikpendem · 2021-10 · Recommendation

Check this video out where he goes over his past projects: [VIDEO] The truth is, out of the dozen or so products he made, only two had real commercial success, NomadList and RemoteOK. So there is survivorship bias present, he just kept trying until he succeeded.

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fouc · 2019-04 · Reference

It's painful. It's supposed to be painful. Anyone that successfully launched kept working through the pain. Think of non-coders that taught themselves to code and launched webapps just by googling and facing the pain. [VIDEO]

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