If I could go back to five years ago, I would tell you what's the reason for starting your own business?

Editor's note: Ben Dixon, a ruby/android developer, develops and operates a geek. He was the founder of reliably deploying Rails applications and created makeitwithcode.com, a Web site that teaches non-developers to create useful things through code. A few days ago, he did an interesting thing:

If I could go back to five years ago, I would tell you what's the reason for starting your own business?

Ben Dixon summed up these, and we made excerpts, in no particular order:

2. The idea of starting a business is always someone like you, it's not a bad thing

4. If someone asks you to sign a confidentiality agreement to listen to their thoughts, please refuse

6. Linear growth is sometimes worse than no growth

8. Most people who talk about failure do not experience it firsthand.

10. Everyone has a hidden strength.

12. "It's not going to work, because what" kind of thought, it's easy for people to make overly judgmental and responsive, should avoid this situation

14. For the new person in the previous situation, to avoid talking to them, you should ask a full-time staff to guide

16. It is painful to listen to someone telling you that you have failed countless times, and what you should do is to find out the slight differences or places you are interested in.

18. Being a tech backbone doesn't mean he knows how to control things.

20. The Battle of programming languages/frameworks is very interesting, but the value in real life is limited

22. Good developers can learn any language or platform within a few weeks

24. I still don't know what real investors are.

26. It's tiring to exaggerate what you're going to do.

28. "Spoil" a product (compared to a problem) is dangerous

30. If you don't know how a hash table works, click the X (Close button) in the top right corner, and when you finally learn it, you'll find it's satisfying

32. The same is true for big O symbols.

34. A night of fame is not a thing, and social networks still play the story

36. I still don't understand PR

38. Most technology solutions are trivial compared to how to get products into people's hands.

40. It may be more interesting to create something that people want than to create what you want.

42. What you want doesn't mean people want, because your product is a business

44. If you do not experience an industry first hand, you may mistakenly understand the way of work, problems encountered, solutions, etc., please communicate with others

46. "Ads" is the business model of the graves

48. "We monetize the data" is the new "Ads"

50. The people you end up wanting to work with (and help) should be those who are always trying to help you, please cherish them.

52. To be good at asking things, most people will have no reason to discount your problem, selectively answer you.

54. Learn to Say no

56. Find a balance in good business ideas and good products, and don't be too paranoid about one side.

58. Writing (blogs, books, journals) is a good habit

60. Do not care too much about the comments you write, there are people who don't like

62. The advice of most startups is scary. Everyone will have different advice, so believe in your intuition

64. For real reasons, no one uses Bitcoin ATM

66. Entrepreneurs will face the first development or financing, if not both, choose the former

68. The solution to many problems is not entirely technical.

70. Tell your thoughts to as many people as you can.

72. Being friends with others doesn't mean you can work with them.

74. Small teams can move quickly to very, so it's important to be cautious about adding extra people.

76. Multitasking is not a single thing, the cost of conversion is huge, so just do one thing at a time

78. Read the article Paul Graham wrote

80. In the tech News (Overview category) on the time investment, the rate of return is very low, please select books and talk

82. Recommended Reading founders Stories, fooled by randomness and the four Steps to the Ephiphany

84. Logo at the beginning is not so important, find a simple, repeatable for different projects of the logo can be

86. If you have the opportunity to participate in the open source and write a few projects, you will encounter the same interests of people

88. Often working 12 hours a day is not a good thing.

90. Talk to all people

92. ......

comments from HN: The comments are greeted with a comment about the 11th "a good developer can learn any language or platform in a few weeks", the saying is not correct, the original use of the word "picking up", and actually good or different, Norvig has a famous article "10 years of self-study programming", which said a paragraph:

In 24 hours You can learn some C + + syntax (if you already know another language), but you can't learn a lot about language use in such a short time. In short, if you're a basic programmer, you can write a program in basic style using C + + syntax, but you don't know if C + + is actually good or bad, what's the point? Alan Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing."

If I could go back to five years ago, I would tell you what's the reason for starting your own business?