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Guys don't downvote somebody on their FIRST POST on HN. This guy may legitimately want to know how to do this, that's one hell of a good reason to be on HN.

Jastis, to answer your question, you do it one step at a time, because if you try to do too many things (or too big of a thing) at once then nothing gets done. Bite off one small thing a day and you'll be amazed how much gets done in half a year.

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Get a personal wiki program like ZuluPad and start making lists of things you need to do to build your business. Break each thing into many small tasks so you can check them off and see the progress you're making.

I've been working steadily on my startup since I left my job in April. My "DONE" list has 88 items. Last night I finished another task: adding proper logging to my web service. There are a lot more tasks on my "TO DO" list, but now there are none blocking me from launching the beta version of my service next week.

Hum. Do you always check a user's profile before downvoting if you don't remember seeing him before? I can't imagine myself doing that.

Or are you using some sort of plugin that gives you more info inline?

I wish I had a tool like that. No I just had an intuition to check this time. I've probably been guilty of downvoting newbies myself without checking.

:-) yay, he's up to ten! I should point out that when I wrote this, the poor guys post was at negative 4.

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