The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2006
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PG's autopsy of startup failure — single founder, bad location, marginal niche, derivative idea, obstinacy, hiring bad programmers, choosing wrong platform. Reads like a checklist 20 years later. Most fatal: launching too late, not making something users actually want.
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. !Image 6 October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup…
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