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I think if you fail in the months between YC applications then you are doing it wrong.

• DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  This is actually a very interesting proposition. I believe what you're saying is that any startup effort should be at least six months long (or you're doing it wrong) Is that a true statement in every case? I've been reading a heckuva lot of startup information over the years here and I'm not so sure it is. Maybe I missed out on something somewhere. Care to enlighten me with a link or an article or something?
  • rms 17y ago
    It depends on how you define the word startup. I was also trying to regurgitate what I saw as the summed wisdom of the writings of PG, namely http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html and the advice to iterate quickly. I suppose in many cases it is possible and desirable to prove your startup completely infeasible during the time between YC Application rounds. It's better to figure out something won't work than to go with something doomed to failure. But it's even better to iterate that initial idea to something that people actually want. I do think that if you are trying to tackle news/journalism that 6 months is not a long time at all to declare failure; there are so many different possibilities for applications and companies.