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A rule generally accepted in the startup land is that you don't work on multiple ideas Interesting. I have not heard this before. As it stands, I have always

A rule generally accepted in the startup land is that you don't work on multiple ideas Interesting. I have not heard this before. As it stands, I have always worked on multiple projects for as long as I can remember. My current main company started out as a side project, for example. Is there a canonical reference or blog post that the startup community refers to, to elucidate the reasons for one-project focus?

shad0wfax 15y ago
The reference I can quote here is from a recent essay PG wrote: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html. Watch the definition of startup #10 (Avoid Distractions) - http://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences http://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences The other source again from PG, that I can infer as not doing too many things/working on too many ideas is: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Read the #18 (A Half-hearted attempt) I am sure there are folks who have juggled more than one Idea and succeeded in all of them. Also, I think the relevance of these posts also probably make sense to someone starting out early (like say during building the product/company) and probably not for someone who already is working on established companies (like in Jack's case). IF you see Jack in fact moved out of twitter to completely focus on Square and only when it had hit the road running, did he embark back on twitter.