Schlep Blindness
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2012
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Why founders avoid the best ideas: they require unpleasant work (schleps). Stripe was a schlep. Airbnb was a schlep. The biggest opportunities sit in plain sight, ignored because they look painful. Train yourself to notice schleps and run toward them.
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. !Image 6 January 2012 There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call _schlep blindness_. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in…
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