Paul Graham

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

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#startups#programming#thinking#philosophy
"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 succeed — if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed — and that's too big a question to answer on the fly."

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