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Startups in 13 Sentences
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…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Feb 23, 2009 | Startups in 13 Sentences by mqt | 322 | 101 |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Startups in 13 Sentences (2009) by gasull | 306 | 78 |
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