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YC's Group Partners Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
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This is not just a good way to run a startup. It’s what a startup is. Venture capitalists know about this and have a phrase for it: barriers to entry. If you go to a VC with a new idea and ask him to invest in it, one of the first things he’ll ask is, how hard would this be for someone else to develop?
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at
random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up
entirely. It has to: you can't get anything done if you're always
asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of
drying up, curiosity be... See more
What You'll Wish You'd Known
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Silicon Valley venture capitalists develop the lean startup “release early, release often” mantra as a way to de-risk investments and avoid investing significant capital without gauging market demand, resulting in narrowing / more incremental innovation. Individual creatives might bias towards smaller projects to de-risk the possibility of inv
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Graham: Before Viaweb we had a startup called Artix. We were going to put art galleries online. The problem was, art galleries didn't want to be online. They still don't want to be online. We spent a long time trying to convince these people to use something they didn't want before we had the idea that maybe we should make something people actually
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