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Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
- The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one. A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be valuable if it works (not all hard problems are worth solving!).
from Hard Startups - Sam Altman by blog.samaltman.com
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- startups represent the wizardry of building something out of nothing. That is hard to do. And to do it very well is harder than the average job.
from Toil We Must by Kyle Harrison
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- However, a key risk with several of these startups is the potential lack of a long-term moat. It is difficult to read too much into it given the stage of these startups and the limited public information available but it’s not difficult to poke holes at their long term defensibility. For example:
- If a startup is built on the premise of taking base L
from AI Startup Trends: Insights from Y Combinator’s Latest Batch
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- As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off becau... See more
from Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
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- 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.
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Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new companyfrom Edward Lando by John Koenig
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- 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.
- Building startups outside of an established tech ecosystem is hard: there’s so much inertia and friction you have to fight that without existing momentum to draw from. You face a prohibitively steep climb out the gate.
from Social Capital in Silicon Valley by Alex Danco
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