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What Did Habit Labs Teach Buster Benson to Avoid at 750 Words?

The lesson Buster Benson carried from Habit Labs to 750 Words is to stay small. He does not want to raise money, hire a cofounder, or scale because a startup is supposed to scale. The mistakes he regrets began when he listened to venture investors. A round of a couple of hundred thousand dollars let strangers in, and then the company was supposed to install a business person as chief executive, hire marketers, and follow a plan that pulled him off the product. He does not call that model always wrong. He says it is no longer for him. 750 Words stays independent so the product does not have to please an investor.

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Bootstrapping a B2C Startup to +$20k/Month with Buster Benson ·

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  1. "why Are We Yelling" - Buster's Recently Launched BookBuster Benson has recently published his first book which goes all about "productive disagreement" and conflict resolution.
  2. Buster's Long Career in TechBuster has gone through Amazon, Twitter, Slack and Patreon throughout the previous decade while working on side-projects like 750 Words.
  3. How Did Buster Benson Become a Software Engineer at Amazon?Buster Benson says Amazon would hire liberal-arts people and train them as engineers. A coworker asked if he knew Perl. He did not.
  4. How Did Buster Get the Entrepreneurial MindsetMany founders identify clicks on their lives when they realize they will become founders.
  5. Where Did Buster Benson's 43 Things Idea Come From?Buster Benson does not offer a technique. He offers a sequence.
  6. What Was Health MonthBuster shares the story behind his project Health Month, an online game that helped people motivate one another to lose weight, exercise or achieve other goals.
  7. The Beginnings of Health LabHealth Lab came from the merge between Buster's project "Health Month" and Y Combinator-funded Contagion Health.
  8. What Does Buster Benson Think Peloton Gets Right About Social Fitness?Buster Benson says he is a fan of Peloton and that the company has mastered the pieces of game design that still matter.
  9. The Beginnings of 750 WordsIn 2009, Buster started 750 Words as a side project. It currently makes +$25,000/month.
  10. Buster's Tips on How to Start a BusinessThe hardest thing about starting a company is the fact that you are going to be highly motivated to ignore the problems.

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