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Why I’m Not Afraid to Build Alone: Debunking the Solo-Founder Myth

If you think you have the skills and self-determination to do the work on your own, don’t let some old Silicon Valley dogma hold you back.

6 min readMar 31, 2021

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Why I Don’t Launch on Product Hunt

A Product Hunt launch shouldn’t make or break your product. Here’s what I do instead.

5 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Why I Don’t Launch on Product Hunt

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Don’t Build a Startup, Build This Instead

Buying into the startup hype when it’s not right for you may not only waste your time, it might kill your business. Do this instead.

6 min readSep 19, 2021

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The Startup Rules You Should Break If You Don’t Have VC Investors

Following these traditional startup rules may take you on the exact opposite path of where you want to go.

8 min readJun 2, 2021

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The Startup Rules You Should Break If You Don’t Have VC Investors

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Off the sidelines and into the game: From startup mentor to startup founder

The skillset of a good founder and a good mentor are two completely different things — know what you’re getting into if you take the leap.

3 min readMay 14, 2021

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Off the sidelines and into the game: From startup mentor to startup founder

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How to Break Through and Get Your First Sale

Getting your first sale is a huge milestone for a bootstrapped business. Here’s what I learned from getting mine.

7 min readApr 20, 2021

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How to Break Through and Get Your First Sale

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Your Most Valuable Work is Also the Most Frustrating

Everything you do that will be painful for someone else to replicate is putting you one step ahead of the competition

4 min readApr 8, 2021

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Your Most Valuable Work is Also the Most Frustrating

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Entrepreneurial Lessons from 6 Months of Building a Business from Nothing

The most important lessons I’ve learned from bootstrapping my solo-project, Epilocal

6 min readMar 25, 2021

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Why I Decided to Build in Public

How I realized that transparency works even for a small project and how I’ll be putting it into practice by building in public

6 min readMar 17, 2021

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Why I Decided to Build in Public

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This simple framework has the secret to building what your customers want

How to use it and what to do if you don’t have any customers yet

6 min readNov 7, 2020

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This simple framework has the secret to building what your customers want

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Greg Dickens

Greg Dickens

Maker, recovering banker, living in Greece. Building affordable digital tools for local news and other indie publishers at https://www.epilocal.com

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