Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which perform… - Paul Graham

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Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users.

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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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Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users. - Paul Graham

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