added by sari · updated 2y ago
Bad Ideas Can Get Surprisingly Far
- A lot of the best ideas seem silly or bad initially—you want an idea at the intersection of “seems like bad idea” and “is good idea”. (It’s important to note you need to be contrarian and right, not simply contrarian.)
from Startup Advice by Sam Altman
Johanna added
- Author Seth Godin on having good ideas:
“People who have trouble coming up with good ideas, if they’re telling you the truth, will tell you they don’t have very many bad ideas. But people who have plenty of good ideas, if they’re telling the truth, will say they have even more bad ideas. So the goal isn’t to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad id... See morefrom 3-2-1: On simplicity, having good ideas, and acting in the face of fear
Isaac Feldman added
- The fact that the best ideas seem like bad ideas makes it even harder to recognize the big winners. It means the probability of a startup making it really big is not merely not a constant fraction of the probability that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have a disproportionately low probabili... See more
from Black Swan Farming by Paul Graham
Ajinkya Wadhwa added