Jason Cohen: How to work out whether advice is helpful to you.

Jason Cohen's talk at Business of Software <a href="http://businessofsoftware.org/" rel="nofollow">http://businessofsoftware.org/</a><p>How to filter advice from others. Brilliant advice, but don't take it as the absolute truth.

This talk summarizes a big chunk of what people submit to HN.<p>The arguments about bootstrapped vs funded, lifestyle vs selling out, lean vs not, MVP vs GDP, internet celebrity worship - all covered pretty well in an hour.

I found the Dimensions of Advice particularly useful. It can found at the 45:20 mark.

Wow....I don't know why, but I always thought Jason was much older. Like 45 - 55.<p>But he looks/sounds much younger in this talk.<p>Btw, interesting presentation!

Great Talk<p>Acid test: can I go out and personally retrieve 30 customers @ $49.95/month?<p>Hm...Do adwords campaigns count? I would love to hear more about this.

I wish this were better written and better edited. I gave up after 2.5 min.