The 18 mistakes that kill startups : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
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Essays by Paul Graham: YC's Paul Graham on the biggest mistakes for startups: not making something users want.
The original version of this essay is available at http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed — if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed — and that's too big a question to answer on the fly. Afterwards I realized it could be helpful to look at the problem from this direction. If you have a list of all the things you shouldn't do, you can turn…
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