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Startups in 13 Sentences | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

PAULGRAHAM (2017)

Above all, understand your users. YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: February 2009

One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what would the other 9 be?

When I made the list there turned out to be 13:

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