<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>One of the most important lessons I learned as a founder is that everyone will give you advice, and the advice will often conflict with other advice, and that&amp;#x27;s OK.&lt;p&gt;The trick is to look at the source of the advice and think about why that advice worked for them. What aspects of their situation are similar to yours?&lt;p&gt;So all advice is good, provided you use it all as inputs to your decision making and consider the context when you decide which advice to lean into.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The first 18 months of a startup</title><url>https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1382351985584721926</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josh_carterPDX</author><text>There are some useful nuggets here, but every company and founder are different. Having run three different accelerator programs I have learned to STOP assuming what makes a good or bad idea. Some of the companies I thought were certain for failure have raised multiple rounds, found product market fit, and are growing just fine. The first 18 months of a startup should include one thing, &amp;quot;GET SOMEONE TO PAY FOR YOUR PRODUCT&amp;#x2F;SERVICE!&amp;quot; Everything else is just iteration.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The first 18 months of a startup</title><url>https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1382351985584721926</url></story>