Do Things that Don't Scale
July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to 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.
- ▪July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to 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.
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to 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. [1]Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going. A good metaphor would be the cranks that car engines had before they got electric starters.
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