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Multiple Miracles Should Be Avoided Entrepreneurs fail often when they define their end goal and then create miracle-driven logic chains to reach it. For example, we want to replace Yelp. Step 1: Launch a mobile music app. Once we have millions of users, we can add local content, including businesses. As soon as we reach millions of users, we can a... See more

It sounds obvious to say you should only work on problems that exist. And yet by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.”

As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.

Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company

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