Last week, Matt (a current student of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business) emailed me about a presentation workshop he was putting together for class. He asked for screenshots of my old landing splash page that I used to generate 300+ email signups while building my startup app, Freelancify. Since the presentation he was doing was about landing-splash pages in general. I decided to take it a step further and quickly hacked this ‘Hello Stanford’ together for him to use:
Visit http://www.jamesfend.com/hellostanford
Jeremy Lin, a Palo Alto native, recently emerged as a breakout star for the New York Knicks after being undrafted/dropped by several teams. Not only has he broken many barriers statistically speaking, but also overcoming relentless struggles and racial barriers. His story has won the hearts of the nation.
Jeremy Lin. How does he relate to my startup or entrepreneurial path? Besides just out-right hustling.. there's much more that meets the eye.
1. Be Uncomfortable. Take Risks.
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When I started this blog, I didn't think it was going to do as well and receive the enormous amounts of positivity as it did. I only published two real articles, and from those two; both shot to the front page of Hacker News and Reddit and amassed 30K+ uniques in a span of a week. And hundreds still come everyday.
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Before I begin, I'd like to recognize Josh Crews (http://www.joshcrews.com) for convincing me to learn Ruby on Rails; without him and his hours of volunteered mentership and help, I wouldn't be writing this today. Thank you.
On January 23rd, I launched my dream idea, Freelancify.com. Exactly 12 weeks before that; I was a tech entrepreneur who spent thousands of dollars to create any type of decent MVP (minimum viable product) because of a skill that I lacked, one that I thought (from the outside looking in) was way too complicated or take too long for me to try to learn. I thought (like many others) that programmers were born (and some are) with a magic set of skills in problem solving and math that made them geniuses to coding.
And exactly 12 weeks ago, I made the best decision I've made in a really, really long time. No longer will any of my dream ideas remain just that, ideas. I now have the power to throw up working versions without spending more than hosting costs and some sweat equity. In today's time, this set of skills is like bringing a fleet of tractors to the California gold rush while everyone else is using shovels. I suggest everyone to learn how to code.
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