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How to Ignore the Nice Feedback?

Get a great advisor As I’ve said before, find a great startup advisor which specifically means a peer of yours that is twelve to eighteen months ahead of you. This is not an industry veteran. It’s not someone who sold their company for hundreds of millions of dollars. It is specifically someone who is good at playing the game that you’re playing, and they’re just a little bit ahead of you.

How to Get Warms Introductions?

Get Intros to Your Friends’ Investors If you’re working in any startup hub, you almost certainly have friends that are working on their own startups. Ask them to help you. The first question should be, “Am I ready to fundraise?” You need to ask this not only for the answer, but also to see just how warm your friend’s introduction will be.

How to Build an Operations Startup?

Don’t be afraid of manual processes This actually goes for all companies. Early on, whenever you can replace code with a manual process, you should; if for no other reason than it can help you to iterate faster. We do it religiously at 42Floors. Everything starts manually. Save your precious engineering cycles for the times when you actually need it.

How to block all blue light from your devices?

F.lux on your computer screen Obviously, anyone who is reading a post like this already has f.lux. It’s a no brainer. Download it for free here. It will change the color temperature of your screen so that it emits less blue light. But most people wrongly assume that f.lux blocks all the blue light.