How can I stay grounded/rational while working at a startup?
I never thought I'd find myself dealing with startup culture (even after reading HN for so long), but I recently joined a startup at my college (CS senior here). I'm really glad to be working with everyone on the team, as I feel like my college career was seriously lacking this kind of experience. We've gauged some interest from local companies about our product as well as a considerable number of other students. Everything seems to be going well so far, but I guess I can't shake this nagging thought of "people don't know what they want", and that nobody will actually use it despite initial research indicating so. So I guess my question is, how can I continue to look at the product rationally instead of having a warped view of somebody who's put a considerable amount of time stressing out over every detail?
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadYou are going to seek out external agents that don't have direct day to day input/work on the product.
This could friends or mentors. It's good to have these throughout your life. They basically ,on top of their friendship, offer a detached perspective which will give you the objective rationality you seek.
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