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A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The Hardest Part of the Startup, Is Not Letting Other People Get You Down

I think the hardest part that we had to go through was not letting other people get us down, and kind of, like maintaining that naivete. We were a very constrained, naive team. And so we had to figure it out. i think some of the ways that i could have screwed it up was actually the ways that I did screw it up is by spending all our money on inventory instead of making them in real time. That was a really rough, difficult part. But now that you've done it, or you did do it, do you think it's possible now? It's toty hosp ono, t what i sayings.

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