Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Many founders, out of their fear of things slowing down, are missing the opportunities that [slowing down] affords them.
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
Airbnb cofounder: "I thought of a way to make a few bucks"
September 22, 2007 https://t.co/mPPTqLO04z
Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas
Sasha Chapin • Tweet
Projects rarely unfold in a linear fashion; they require frequent course correction. Most trainees should spend more time on a project’s decision tree than they currently do. Once you get into a project, you will have learned from your initial experiments, new papers will have been published, and technology will have advanced. As a result, at any... See more
Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell
Designing products for a single person
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Baking soda —invented in the 1800s by British chemist Alfred Bird so that he could make bread for his wife, who was allergic to yeast.
- The typewriter —one of the
