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Paul Graham - Do Things That Don't Scale
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This is an audio version of "Do Things That Don’t Scale" by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com/ds.html). Read by Mark Gavagan, author of Streaker's Journal (streakersjournal.com), founder of Crushh.com (crushh.com). On Twitter: @mgav Partial transcript: One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist. [1] Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going. A good metaphor would be the cranks that car engines had before they got electric starters. Once the engine was going, it would keep going, but there was a separate and laborious process to get it going. Recruit The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them. Stripe is one of the most successful startups we've funded, and the problem they solved was an urgent one. If anyone could have sat back and waited for users, it was Stripe. But in fact they're famous within YC for aggressive early user acquisition. End of transcript. Go to paulgraham.com/ds.html to read the full text.
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This is an audio version of "Do Things That Don’t Scale" by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com/ds.html). Read by Mark Gavagan, author of Streaker's Journal (streakersjournal.com), founder of Crushh.com (crushh.com). On Twitter: @mgav Partial transcript: One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist. [1] Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going. A good metaphor would be the cranks that car engines had before they got electric starters. Once the engine was going, it would keep going, but there was a separate and laborious process to get it going. Recruit The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them. Stripe is one of the most successful startups we've funded, and the problem they solved was an urgent one. If anyone could have sat back and waited for users, it was Stripe. But in fact they're famous within YC for aggressive early user acquisition. End of transcript. Go to paulgraham.com/ds.html to read the full text.
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