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Paul Graham:Do Things that Don't Scale, Excerpt 1

Paul Graham《Do Things that Don't Scale》· Do Things that Don't Scale · Action · Wealth · Investing · Leadership

One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist.

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