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Not the idea, though. I can't remember anyone before PG arguing that startups today cost less to run, and so therefore should be funded lightly, and built for l
by shadowsun7 17y ago
Not the idea, though. I can't remember anyone before PG arguing that startups today cost less to run, and so therefore should be funded lightly, and built for low cash-burn. In the essay above PG argues against "getting big fast". Which is a rough way of saying "stay lean".
That being said - Horowitz seems to be limiting his advice to 'high-tech' startups. Note the penultimate paragraph.
Not sure if the advice applies to startups in general.
- swombat 17y agoOk, so... Person A comes up with a term, let's call this term X. Other people start mis-defining X as something else, let's call it Y. Person B happened to talk about Y before person A talked about X. Therefore, your argument goes, person A's definition of X is wrong? Either I'm not following you, or your arguments are not following each other. Eric Ries doesn't advise against getting big fast. He advises to get big as fast as possible, where "possible" is defined by the product-market fit that's been reached.