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How to Start a Startup

I don't want to be a working man forever. That means that I'm eventually going to need to become rich. In order to do that, I feel like my best bet is starting my own business. According to Paul Graham, "You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed."

I don't know who Paul Graham is, a tech guy who made good stuff at some point or another. And he's right about the 3 things needed for a good startup. Except that spending as little money as possible, and even finding good people isn't close to as hard as coming up with a good product. Having a good product won't take you all the way to success, but it definitely will allow you to make a lot of mistakes along the way.

Now, I've got some good people in mind, and I'm great at being fiscally conservative, anyone have any good products?

Posted by: aaron cohen

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