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    2. Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (May 12 2012) Funding

      Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations ...eration,” where you assume you won’t get it right the first time. This idea was well articulated by Paul Graham in an old essay, called “Startups in 13 Sentences” in which he talked about “making a few people re... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Paul Graham   Google   Marty Zwilling

    3. 9 Tips for a New Entrepreneur

      Explore Startup America Partnership (Apr 19 2012) Marketing , Productivity

      9 Tips for a New Entrepreneur ...and tech writers, and leave insightful comments. I would highly recommend reading blogs of VCs like Paul Graham [YCombinator], Fred Wilson [Union Square Venture] and more. I also read tons of blogs from entrepre... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   Paul Graham   TechStars

    4. 23 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas

      Explore Startup Grind (Apr 10 2012) Productivity

      23 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas First off, startup ideas themselves are next to worthless. Paul Graham wrote an incredible essay about the face value of startup ideas that takes an economically analytic... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Paul Graham

    5. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask)

      Explore TechCrunch (Apr 8 2012)

      ... with Jason Calacanis (at the 17:55 mark): “Convertible notes have made variable pricing possible.” Paul Graham reached the same conclusion in his post, “High Resolution Fundraising”: Naval and Paul are referrin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   Jason Calacanis   Mark Suster

    6. 5 Things I Learned About Entrepreneurship From Y Combinator's Paul Graham

      Explore FastCompany.com (Mar 23 2012)

      ...tely after starting YC. Since then, I’ve been asked many times what kind of insights I gleaned from Paul Graham about how to successfully build a company, so I want to share the 5 most important insights below: ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   Graduate School of Business   Stanford

    7. Lessons Learned By A Solo Entrepreneur – with Rob Walling

      Explore mixergy.com (Mar 20 2012)

      Lessons Learned By A Solo Entrepreneur – with Rob Walling ...ship does. Next, you applied to Y Combinator, you got turned down. Are you holding a grudge against Paul Graham, the guy who you read about for so long? Rob: No, not at all. They evaluate their ideas based on wh... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AOL   Seth Godin   New York

    8. There’s a Difference Between Perseverance and Willing Something into Reality

      Explore instigatorblog.com (Mar 16 2012)

      There’s a Difference Between Perseverance and Willing Something into Reality ... startup, somewhere between the post-launch euphoria and the wiggles of false hope (as described in Paul Graham’s Startup Curve), you’ll try and mentally force success. But it’s a waste of time. And energy. ... (Read Full Article)

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    9. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice

      Explore humbledmba.com (Jan 10 2012) Legal

      ...ssed the mark, is an almost certainty. Optimize around the problems most likely to shut you down. Paul Graham always told us to focus on the one enemy that matters: the back button. 5.) You desperately need re... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Paul Graham   Google

    10. Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink

      Explore paulstamatiou.com (Dec 28 2011)

      Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink ...he ass and can often come close to killing a startup. If you haven't read the essay linked below by Paul Graham, it's definitely worth a read. Everything in that essay rings true. For Notifo, it was the latter —... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Motorola   Andreessen Horowitz   Startup School

    11. How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 26 2011)

      How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston ...to Y Combinator which eventually funded you, but as you and I talked before this interview started, Paul Graham, I think, turned you down and said you needed a co-founder? Drew: Yeah. I was looking around for a ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jessica Livingston   Eric Reis   Boston

    12. How To Take Your Startup International

      Explore Business Insider (Dec 22 2011)

      ... 2: Attitude Altitude is pretty easy to gauge. I used a template of 5 questions to ask [mostly from Paul Graham's essays] and emailed every one of them saying we would love to have them get involved. Ask those q... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Italy   Paul Graham

    13. Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 19 2011)

      Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs ...he line, I suppose. So I just crawled, all of these Facebooking images, basically from ads. Andrew: Paul Graham, I think he told this to [??]. He said that one of the key factors that he looks for is naughtiness... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Farmville   Pacific

    14. How Webinars Led An Injured Jock To $1.7+ Million Sales

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 26 2011)

      How Webinars Led An Injured Jock To $1.7+ Million Sales ... off of you, I’d have more people on like you. And then, I can’t take a commission off of guys like Paul Graham, right? What am I going to do, take a commission off of every company that he funds as a result of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   London   Australia   Jason Calacanis

    15. Angel Investors Won’t Swoop Down on Your Startup

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Jul 23 2011) Funding

      Angel Investors Won’t Swoop Down on Your Startup Fundraising is brutal. Actually, according to Paul Graham, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making someth... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Guy Kawasaki   Canada   Paul Graham

    16. Do things that don’t scale [Big Idea Series]

      Explore mixergy.com (Jun 20 2011)

      ...hing that we did here had to someday support hundreds of thousands to millions of users.” Then Then Paul Graham, their investor, suggested they do things that don’t scale. So they flew to New York, because the s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Providence   Boston   San Francisco

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