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A Conversation with Paul Graham

Startup School by Y Combinator

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Do Things That Don't Scale in the Beginning?

Palea: Why is it that start ups are so cot or intuitive? You should not try to do too much in the beginning, you should do things that don't scale. Do things very manually for your early customers. If you have to do a ton of manual stuff, that's ok. You'll learn a lot from it. And when you do an early start up, it's become our mantro. I see, and i've seen it again and again. It's like we're all trying to make ourselves feel better by saying 'I'm doing this right now.' We need to be more self-confident about who we are as well as what we can

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