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The essential task in a startup is to create wealth; the dimension of wealth you have most control over is how much you improve users' lives; and the hardest part of that is knowing what to make for them. Once you know what to make, it's mere effort to make it, and most decent hackers are capable of that.
Paul Graham • Startups in 13 Sentences
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.
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
The ideas that became billion-dollar companies didn’t fit any specific archetype. Some founders acted as missionaries, solving their personal problems, but many startups were the result of deliberate ideation and were opportunity driven. Successful founders rarely tell the stories of the days when they were jumping from one idea to another to find
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