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

    @levelsio

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2018–2021

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    1:00:00 · 356K views · Jan 24, 2018

    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.

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    7 comments from Hacker News

    1. @dharma1Feb 2018· in “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”

      Here's a recent talk by Pieter - this 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.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @satvikpendemOct 2021· in “Remote OK Open Startup”

      Check this video out where he goes over his past projects: this 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.

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @filipmFeb 2018· 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): this video

      CitesView on HN
    4. @tim333Mar 2019· 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. this video So maybe just PHP on Linode has some drawbacks

      CitesView on HN
    5. @vatotemkingMar 2018· 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] this video

      CitesView on HN