It's easier to innovate when you're the original of something. People copying you can only copy a snapshot of your current state. They don't know whi… - Paul Graham

The biggest opportunity for would-be startup founders is AI. But the most underpriced opportunity is probably non-AI ideas. So if you have a good non-AI idea, go for it, because everyone else is going to overlook it.

You don't need to know more than the most obvious things about business to start a startup, but you need to be at least decent at building things, in order to build sufficiently good initial versions.

A company big enough to acquire startups will be big enough to be fairly conservative, and within the company the people in charge of acquisitions will be among the more conservative, because they are likely to be business school types who joined the company late. They would rather overpay for a safe choice.