Make customers discover you. Those are the only people whose opinions of you really matter. - Paul Graham
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Make customers discover you. Those are the only people whose opinions of you really matter.
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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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Almost thirty years in, online shopping is still not a solved problem. Big sites like Amazon work, but if you try to order from a manufacturer's site, there's still a good chance it will break. In a very high production value way, with lots of Javascript, but still break.
"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that techincally inept business types are known as "suits.
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I suppose designating "sectors of focus" for your VC firm could be harmless, so long as it's only something you tell LPs and not something you start to believe yourself.
