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Altman’s on point here: don’t follow a trend, focus on solving problems. And choose something hard. When money is growing on trees, pick a major problem with a
by ttul 8y ago
Altman’s on point here: don’t follow a trend, focus on solving problems. And choose something hard. When money is growing on trees, pick a major problem with a huge upside should you solve it. Startups are hard; at least make it have a chance of being really worthwhile.
— Someone who picked a small problem.
- rthng 8y agoIf it's not too forward, what problem did you pick?
- ttul 8y agoWell, once upon a time when I was young and stupid, I chose to make some very tiny improvement to spam filtering.
- ElzeardBouffier 8y agoApplication of Bayesian filters was not a tiny improvement.
- flyosity 8y ago"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"
- jonbarker 8y agoWhere it gets difficult to answer the very real internal almost contemplative question of 'am I solving a hard problem?' is when one looks at the history of fluffy rhetoric used by companies solving seemingly easy problems, making it impossible to convince them or their supporters they aren't solving something hard. For example, a website with photo sharing and a forum like feature called a newsfeed claims to be connecting everyone. Can't fault them for having audacious goals, I guess, but then it makes it harder to know how to approach one's own hard problems. What's the MVP for a product that attacks world hunger, cancer, or energy scarcity, for example?
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