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Do Things That Don't Scale
If you can find someone with a problem that needs solving and you can solve it manually, go ahead and do that for as long as you can, and then gradually automate the bottlenecks. It would be a little frightening to be solving users' problems in a way that wasn't yet automatic, but less frightening than the far more common case of having something a... See more
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
Story time.
@jgebbia probably doesn’t remember this but he had passed me this advice when @udemy was less than a year old and it was a pivotal moment in our success.
@rabois had invited his portfolio companies to a breakfast in his SF house. I was sitting next to Joe. Airbnb was also a mar... See more
Eren Balix.comThe need to do something unscalably laborious to get started is so nearly universal that it might be a good idea to stop thinking of startup ideas as scalars. Instead we should try thinking of them as pairs of what you're going to build, plus the unscalable thing(s) you're going to do initially to get the company going.