Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
March 2012One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
- ▪March 2012One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are.
- ▪In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some.
- ▪Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. March 2012One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire. That might sound like an attractive prospect, and yet when I describe these ideas you may notice you find yourself shrinking away from them.Don't worry, it's not a sign of weakness. Arguably it's a sign of sanity. The biggest startup ideas are terrifying. And not just because they'd be a lot of work.
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