> people were looking for concrete examples of mistakes startups made (so they can avoid it themselves) Which he has written about before: http://paulgraham.co

> people were looking for concrete examples of mistakes startups made (so they can avoid it themselves) Which he has written about before: http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html My first impression was that the title was somewhat vague, but it was actually just very literal. This is what PG himself has learned from his users, not an essay on how to learn from users or how to build a successful startup.