How Not to Die (2007)
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How Not to Die (2007)
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Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#2Could use a (2007) in the title. Previous discussion with the most comments:
Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#3I read this post so many times when I was working on my startup (https://first.io). I particularly love this quote: "Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!"
In fact, I even had it as a banner on my desktop for a while: "JUST KEEP TYPING!"
Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#4So did the Octopart guys ever become billionaires?
Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#5So did the Octopart guys ever become billionaires?
Acquired a few years ago.
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#6'Let me mention some things not to do. The number one thing not to do is other things. If you find yourself saying a sentence that ends with "but we're going to keep working on the startup," you are in big trouble.'
Since many start-up ideas are bad ones, it often will be rational for start-up founders to quit and do other things.
Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#7So did the Octopart guys ever become billionaires?
They were acquired in 2015, with 15 employees at the time, for an undisclosed purchase price. So probably not, though they didn't fail either.
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#8I love this. I have read it a few times in the last years. This and Never Quit If [1] from Jason Lemkin have been essential for me to keep pursuing and never stop building my startup [2].
Re: How Not to Die (2007)
#9So did the Octopart guys ever become billionaires?
Doesn't look like it but they exited, weather they got anything is a different story.
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#10'Let me mention some things not to do. The number one thing not to do is other things. If you find yourself saying a sentence that ends with "but we're going to keep working on the startup," you are in big trouble.' Since many start-up ideas are bad ones, it often will be rational for start-up founders to quit and do other things.
I don't know. Ideas are overrated.
If the startup is able to execute on building things of unique value, I don't necessarily think it is rational to stop.
So often however, the startups don't build anything unique, and many don't seem to build anything at all.