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Alexandr Wang on why Paul Graham’s “Schlep Blindness” essay was seminal for Scale AI
“One of the secrets to Scale AI — and I think this applies to almost every industry — was that the problem we were solving of building really high quality data sets was something that most machine learning teams knew was very important ... See more
Startup Archivex.comEveryone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
youtube.comThe probability that a startup will make it big is not simply a constant fraction of the probability that they will succeed at all. If it were, you could fund everyone who seemed likely to succeed at all, and you'd get that fraction of big hits. Unfortunately picking winners is harder than that. You have to ignore the elephant in front of you, the ... See more
Paul Graham • Black Swan Farming
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 moreGabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Fail fast might be the wrong thing now that the idea maze has shifted.
Just use interesting technology, follow your own curiosity, and if you live at the edge of the future like PG says, there's so many great startup ideas you're very likely to just bump into one. https://t.co/eBVM7X9rNR
Garry Tanx.comone of Google’s smart creatives, Luiz Barroso, talked about it in a smartly worded internal Google+ posting in late 2014 that was forwarded to us. He called it his Roofshot Manifesto (“We choose to go to the roof not because it is glamorous, but because it is right there!”), and it quickly spread among Googlers. In his manifesto, Luiz correctly cal
... See moreEric Schmidt • How Google Works
What's crazy to give away now, but won't be crazy to give away in 10 years? If you can answer that, you may have a good startup idea.
(Those who think startups succeed by exploiting people had better look away at this point, while we figure out how to give more away for free.)
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