Showing up at YC is the exact opposite of having a teenager. I walk in and I'm mobbed by people eager to hear my advice about what they should do. - Paul Graham
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Showing up at YC is the exact opposite of having a teenager. I walk in and I'm mobbed by people eager to hear my advice about what they should do.
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
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Make customers discover you. Those are the only people whose opinions of you really matter.
Something I taught 11 yo: The less competent the judges in a contest, the less it matters to win it.
If your startup's potential market is huge, make very conservative assumptions when estimating its size. There is nothing investors like more than an obviously conservative estimate that still ends up being huge.
