Steve Blank Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
People's motives for starting startups are usually mixed. They're usually doing it from some combination of the desire to make money, the desire to seem cool, genuine interest in the problem, and unwillingness to work for someone else. The last two are more powerful motivators than the first two. It's ok for founders to want to make money or to see... See more
Paul Graham • Billionaires Build
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That's the real point of startups. Ideally, you are getting together with a group of other people who also want to work a lot harder, and get paid a lot more, than they would in a big company.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
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As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. Now with kids it had become, “ I work to live .” I still loved what I did as an entrepreneur but I wasn’t working only for the sheer joy of it, I was also working to provide for my family and a longer term goal of retir
... See moreSteve Blank • Steve Blank Epitaph for an Entrepreneur
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" Mundane as it sounds, that's the most powerful motivator of all, not just in startups, but in most ambitious undertakings: to be genuinely interested in what you're building. This is what really drives billionaires, or at least the ones who become billionaires from starting companies. The company is their project. "
Paul Graham • Billionaires Build
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CEOs and startups from existing businesses. Founding entrepreneurs are out to prove their vision and business are real and not some hallucination;
Steve Blank • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
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Young people don’t want to rent their time to corporations—they watched their parents and grandparents get burned during the Great Recession and again during the COVID pandemic. Why work within “the system” with capped upside when you can use your hustle and savvy to dictate your own fortune, and have equity upside?
Rex Woodbury • Everyone Is An Investor
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Steve Blank says, “A startup is not a small version of a big company.” Great ideas don’t come from mimicking corporates, or anyone else for that matter. The best ideas come from discovering specific new insights about customers and developing new ways to satisfy their unmet needs. In short, run your own race.
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