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Paul Graham:

How to Get Startup Ideas — The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. — The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want …

Nov 19, 2012, 6:25 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

The Hardware Renaissance — One advantage of Y Combinator's early, broad focus is that we see trends before most other people. And one of most conspicuous trends in the last batch was the large number of hardware startups. Out of 84 companies, 7 were making hardware.

Oct 23, 2012, 12:45 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Startup = Growth — A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of “exit.” The only essential thing is growth.

Sep 21, 2012, 10:05 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Black Swan Farming — I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing. — The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners …

Sep 9, 2012, 7:55 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas — One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.

Mar 9, 2012, 9:45 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

A Word to the Resourceful — A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying.

Jan 19, 2012, 1:55 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Schlep Blindness — 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 the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.

Jan 14, 2012, 5:50 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Why Startup Hubs Work — If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide. — I wondered about this for years.

Oct 5, 2011, 4:50 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

The Patent Pledge — I realized recently that we may be able to solve part of the patent problem without waiting for the government. — I've never been 100% sure whether patents help or hinder technological progress. When I was a kid I thought they helped.

Aug 31, 2011, 3:55 PM– In context

Paul Graham:

Subject: Airbnb — Yesterday Fred Wilson published a remarkable post about missing Airbnb. VCs miss good startups all the time, but it's extraordinarily rare for one to talk about it publicly till long afterward. So that post is further evidence what a rare bird Fred is. He's probably the nicest VC I know.

Mar 17, 2011, 4:20 PM– In context

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