THE VIDEO SHELF · bootstrapping startups
How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as an inspiring talk for solo makers turning side projects into profitable businesses.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- @levelsio
- Topic
- bootstrapping startups
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
dharma1 on Hacker News · 2018-02
In Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?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 …
satvikpendem on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Remote OK Open Startup
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