Glad this is first. It is ironic because the founders writing the blog posts and giving advice have proved that they actually don't know what they are doing by the very act of wasting their time writing blog posts.
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I feel one of the luckiest things that happened to Thumbtack was that for the first 3 years or so the company got basically no press, raising money was difficult and we got a lot of negative feedback from a lot of people. This meant not only did we not have any opportunities for the time wasting things listed (giving advice to others, talking on panels, etc), but we didn't get any validation from anybody for pretending to be successful.
For a lot of people, me included, writing about things is the same as thinking about things. I need that written output to be able to work through things and inspect them deeply.
And if I've spent all that time distilling my thoughts into a readable form, I might as well post it.
Glad this is first. It is ironic because the founders writing the blog posts and giving advice have proved that they actually don't know what they are doing by the very act of wasting their time writing blog posts.
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I feel one of the luckiest things that happened to Thumbtack was that for the first 3 years or so the company got basically no press, raising money was difficult and we got a lot of negative feedback from a lot of people. This meant not only did we not have any opportunities for the time wasting things listed (giving advice to others, talking on panels, etc), but we didn't get any validation from anybody for pretending to be successful.