Most advice sucks. Ignore it. Including this. Be so good they can't ignore you. Once your success is inevitable, people will want to help you. It's cruel, but it's true. [[It demands a result, not an appeasement]]. [Get it done](https://boz.com/articles/get-it-done). (Where done = Stack cash, or discounted future cash flows). Ask yourself - do you "deserve" to succeed? Based on what you've done. Other thoughts: * Be a weird/extreme/unique person with weird/extreme/unique interests, skills, and experiences. Then do things that are extensions of yourself. And do those in interesting markets. And then maybe some of them will take off. In general, follow your instincts and intuitions. Trying to "think" things through will slow you down. Do what you want, not what you feel you "should". And now that I've added that pressure, you can take it off. My suggestion is to follow your intuition and do what feels right, ignore advice, and accept whatever outcome that gets you. The only times I've ever regretted things have been when I felt an intuition to do something, or to not do something, and I ignored it. If you're post-PMF, that's a totally different scenario - in that case advice can be quite helpful. In general, advice is more helpful for "optimizing" things that are already working than it is for going from "0-1".