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It amazes me how easy it is to get distracted from the basic definition. For instance, I've read tons of articles that talk about young teams as being so great
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
It amazes me how easy it is to get distracted from the basic definition.
For instance, I've read tons of articles that talk about young teams as being so great because "they don't know enough to know what is impossible." The implication is that a young team can change the world and do great things.
That's a wonderful point, and I agree with it. But it's not a startup. The whole reason for the big-idea, change-the-world observation is that ideas that change the world tend to scale very rapidly. And that's the definition of startup.
Easy to lose track of the main goal in all the bloggery and such.
- jacquesm 16y agoSo, to clarify, by your definition someone that does not have an original idea and that won't/can't scale rapidly is not doing a start-up?
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoI must have worded that poorly. Nope, I don't think the idea has anything to do with it. It's the scaling. You can have old, boring, been-there-done-that ideas and have a great startup: as long as you can scale. In fact, I think it works the other way -- the more boring and mundane your idea, as long as it can scale, the easier it probably is to execute. Lots of folks want to make the next Twitter. Very few folks want to help plumbers find the right hex nut when fixing antique toilets (or something like that)