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Before the Startup
Paul Graham · Passages from the same work, in order.
Before the Startup, Excerpt 2
Expertise The second counterintuitive point is that it's not that important to know a lot about startups. The way to succeed in a startup is not to…
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Before the Startup, Excerpt 3
But that doesn't work with startups. There is no boss to trick, only users, and all users care about is whether your product does what they want.…
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Before the Startup, Excerpt 4
But the total volume of worry never decreases; if anything it increases. Starting a successful startup is similar to having kids in that it's like…
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Before the Startup, Excerpt 5
In the unlikely case that you're 20 and one of your side projects takes off like Facebook did, you'll face a choice of running with it or not, and it…
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Before the Startup, Excerpt 6
Instead of making a conscious effort to think of startup ideas, turn your mind into the type that startup ideas form in without any conscious effort.…
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Before the Startup, Excerpt 7
So strangely enough the optimal thing to do in college if you want to be a successful startup founder is not some sort of new, vocational version…
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