Paul Graham personal blog
How to Get Startup Ideas
November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Nov 19, 2012 | How to Get Startup Ideas by relation | 914 | 231 |
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