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How do you define successful ?.
by quadrature 11y ago
How do you define successful ?.
- mkagenius 11y agoSuccess is a journey that starts with a "?" (question mark) and end with "." (fullstop)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoCan you give some examples of successful startups, funded by YC or not, that ended with a "." ?
- Animats 11y agoAnn Taylor.
- p4wnc6 11y agoSo in Python, success is a regular expression that matches zero or one occurrences any character except newline? I've been doing it wrong!
- ygra 11y agoI'm fairly sure Python would throw an error if you treated that as a regular expression.
- p4wnc6 11y agoThat's why to succeed you have to try!
- un33k 11y agoSuccess is when one remains true to self & others. If we must use Python, then - Any of these is considered False: None, '', [], (), {} and False itself. So, one is bound to achieve success by being truthful to self and others, always create value and make no empty promises and know when to "raise" an exception. Never giving up but knowing when to abandon a bad venture can also be seen as success. There must be some +ve energy between a startup & an investor. Timing is also everything. Investors can only invest in so many pet food startups. While a pet food startup is making money and is considered a success, that doesn't mean investors have to invest. Investors sometimes walk away from a B-team founders of a startup no matter how successful the startup really is. A-team with B-plan is always prefered over B-team with A-plan. Sometimes, Founders decide not take money from investors, if they believe that the investor may only bring money and without any intellect and/or networking. With that said, the final transaction is not everything.
- kzhahou 11y agoFailure also starts with a "?" and ends with a "." :-)
- AnkhMorporkian 11y agoCan I get into ycombinator? No.
- mrborgen 11y agoNot very strict demands. If it's still growing and does exciting stuff, I'm interested in hearing about it. (Though that probably is an insane amount of companies)