Reading the title I thought this would be ideas for actual products or services that a start-up could pursue. Rather it is 19 points of advice for startups to follow.
<i>"If you’re hiring someone with a significant other, you’ve got to meet that person. He or she shows a lot about your potential hire."</i><p>If you're hiring, you can't ask people about their marriages, their kids, etc. Let alone <i>meet</i> them, what the hell.
I'm starting to think people post stuff like this just to get to the top of sites like HN. In this list I only see 2 items (Interview by E-mail and meet a potential employee's mate) that aren't common sense.<p>The rest boils down to Work Hard, Hire great people who get along, use Social Networking and Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. All advice that's been posted here 100,000 times in the past.
Not rocket science, but good to hear repeated often all the same.<p>For ideas see the shed load (67 just now) over at:
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