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“It’s sort of like: ‘What do you want to be in life?’”, Thiel tells me. “And the answer, more often than not, is ‘I want to be an entrepreneur.’”
Luke Burgis • Cargo Cult Startups
Livingston: What would you tell someone who wanted to start their own company? van Hoff: If you have the energy to do it, then you should try it yourself. But you do need to have the ability to form a team around you with good people. Talent attracts talent. A lot of people get stuck on the idea. They all want to invent something and go execute on
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comThe very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.