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- Successful startups often seem lame or wrong when they first launch, like stepping into a swamp rather than climbing a mountain.
- Founders are drawn to promising ideas by instinct because they live in the future and sense something missing, even if they can't articulate why.
- Instead of ridiculing lame-sounding startup ideas, ask 'What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?' to uncover their potential.
- Sometimes there are multiple possible 'Microsofts' a startup could grow into, varying in size by orders of magnitude.