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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Paul Graham · Passages from the same work, in order.
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 2
I think the solution is to assume that anything you've made is far short of what it could be. Force yourself, as a sort of intellectual exercise,…
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 3
And not just to users. You need this for everyone: investors, acquirers, partners, reporters, potential employees, and even current employees. You…
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 4
It's why the best abstract painting still falls short of Leonardo, for example. And it applies to startups too. No idea for a product could ever be…
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 5
At Y Combinator we sometimes mistakenly fund teams who have the attitude that they're going to give this startup thing a shot for three months, and…
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 6
Startups make wealth, which means they make things people want, and if there's a limit on the number of things people want, we are nowhere near it. I…
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn, Excerpt 7
The way to succeed in a startup is to focus on the goal of getting lots of users, and keep walking swiftly toward it while investors and acquirers…
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