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

@levelsio2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
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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.

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

Startups & entrepreneurship

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7 comments from Hacker News

@filipm2018 · in “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”

Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for: - [LINK] (of course) - [LINK] - [LINK] - [LINK] - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): [LINK] (thanks @jbonniwell) - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): [LINK] - Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: [LINK] - Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): [VIDEO]

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@dharma12018 · in “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”

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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@vatotemking2018 · in “Show HN: Run Training Calendar”

Hello HN. I was partly inspired by Pieter Levels' talk about [0] turning side projects into startups and his 1 startup per month. So I finally got my act together, and launch my own sideproject to a greater audience here in HN. Honest and brutal comments are welcome. [0] [VIDEO]

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@fouc2018 · in “I wandered off and built an IDE”

I think that there's a rising "Maker" culture that focuses on building first and launching fast. For example: [VIDEO]

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@tim3332019 · in “You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure”

8 days ago also, 81 comments [LINK] After the last time I watched a video of the Nomadlist guy, Pieter Levels, talking about it and he said >I've woken up so many times at 4:00 a.m. to just check if my website down and I have to do all this stuff and then I'm awake for three hours because the server crashed. [VIDEO] So maybe just PHP on Linode has some drawbacks

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@fouc2019 · in “Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?”

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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@satvikpendem2021 · in “Remote OK Open Startup”

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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