Before the Startup
2 days ago
- Startups are counterintuitive; trusting instincts can lead to mistakes, but trust gut feelings about people.
- Expertise on users and solving their problems is more important than knowledge about startups themselves.
- Avoid 'playing house' by imitating startup activities; focus on making something people want.
- Gaming the system doesn't work for startups; success comes from genuine user satisfaction, not tricks.
- Startups are all-consuming and change your life irrevocably; it's not advisable to start one in college.
- You can't predict success in startups; the only way to find out is to try, but not during college.
- Good startup ideas emerge naturally from learning and working on interesting problems, not from forced ideation.
- College is best used to learn powerful things and develop genuine curiosity, not to focus on entrepreneurship.