What Rob Walling thinks about startups
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
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4 dated positions, 2012 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Rob Walling has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI think about startup success as requiring three things: hard work, luck, and skill. You need some combination of all three, but the mix varies.
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Their wordsThe patterns only emerge after you've done it more than once-and even then, you might be wrong about half of it.
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Their wordsThis experience taught me one of the most important lessons of my startup journey: that ideas are cheap, and that execution is all that matters.
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Their wordsEven if you don't spend as long as Dennis Crowley thinking about a problem and space, I've seen a general trend that really successful startup founders are super passionate about the space they're in.