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I love PG but listening to his advice on startups always felt like discovering the steps to create a nuclear bomb. Step 1) collect seven pounds of weapons grad

I love PG but listening to his advice on startups always felt like discovering the steps to create a nuclear bomb. Step 1) collect seven pounds of weapons grade plutonium Step 1 of a great startup is an amazing idea. Unless you have step one I think the advice is pretty non applicable. Sure, I get the whole camp “ideas are a dime a dozen”, but, a bad idea can fall apart with millions of VC ran by MIT grads and an amazing idea can come to life with a few hundred bucks with a high school kid.

sampl 8y ago
It’s better than saying “you can build a nuclear bomb if you just wish it hard enough”. > a bad idea can fall apart with millions of VC ran by MIT grads and an amazing idea can come to life with a few hundred bucks with a high school kid. This is a actually really wonderful thing! Unless you’re an MIT grad with no ideas about how to help customers hoping you could cash in by riding solely on your credentials I guess.