"I hated that my bananas were curved so I went ahead and sent a facebook message to some friends to see if they would buy a banana straightener. Two of them ordered one, so I set up a website and within the first 48 hours I got my first sale! I grabbed the first link I found in the banana straighteners manufacturers on Google search and ordered 50. Now I make 15k/month selling banana straighteners and I'm typing this from the Philippines, drinking a Mojito."
Survivorship bias + selective memory.
If everyone who tried to validate an idea but failed wrote a blog post about it you'd have a very different picture of just how often these "easy" success stories happen.
And of the success stories, a lot of the hard times get glossed over because successful entrepreneurs are generally positive forward-looking people and the hard times don't register as much as they might for someone else.
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