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startups need an asymmetry

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I tweeted some version of this and figured I’d expand on it a little. I don’t really feel qualified to turn it into a grand theory of startups, so take it or leave it. I think a startup, or at least the kind of startup I’m interested in, starts with some bet that changes the physics of how something is already being done. that could be a new piece of technology, some IP, a business model, a regul

I tweeted some version of this and figured I’d expand on it a little. I don’t really feel qualified to turn it into a grand theory of startups, so take it or leave it. I think a startup, or at least the kind of startup I’m interested in, starts with some bet that changes the physics of how something is already being done. that could be a new piece of technology, some IP, a business model, a regulatory change, or just noticing something about the world that other people haven’t noticed yet. I’m using “physics” pretty loosely here, but I mean that some important constraint has changed and you…

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