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Startup = Growth
Paul Graham · Passages from the same work, in order.
Startup = Growth, Excerpt 1
A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to…
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Startup = Growth, Excerpt 2
Whereas if you want to start a startup, you're probably going to have to think of something fairly novel. A startup has to make something it can…
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Startup = Growth, Excerpt 4
It's not that you don't think about the future, just that you think about it no more than necessary. In theory this sort of hill-climbing could get a…
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Startup = Growth, Excerpt 5
If a successful startup could make a founder $100 million, then even if the chance of succeeding were only 1%, the expected value of starting one…
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Startup = Growth, Excerpt 6
Growth drives everything in this world. Growth is why startups usually work on technology — because ideas for fast growing companies are so rare that…
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Startup = Growth, Excerpt 7
On the other hand, launching something small and then using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any company that…
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