Paul Graham on How to Start a Startup
Tim Finin, 7:17pm 9 March 2005I’m sure we all have this in the back of our mind. Paul Graham, who’s done this, has a essay “How to Start a Startup” (March 2005) that’s worth a look.
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.
And that’s kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable. Hard, but doable. And since a startup that succeeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies getting rich is doable too. Hard, but doable.
If there is one message I’d like to get across about startups, that’s it. There is no magically difficult step that requires brilliance to solve.
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March 9th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
This part is really great! Totally Agree. Maybe besides those three, one also need a little luck. But if one keeps trying hard, one will get it sooner or later.
March 9th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
Got to read this article.