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All good points. Additionally the timing worked as well and allowed them "not to die". http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html "
by larrys 14y ago
All good points. Additionally the timing worked as well and allowed them "not to die".
http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
"If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich."
- Dn_Ab 14y agoThat quote brings to mind the following from the Hitchhiker's Guide: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." I think with respect to startups the quote is more than just funny, it captures the bravery and apparent foolishness but great rewards of the endeavor.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss It's also a perfect description of how orbital mechanics work - the Moon is actually falling down towards us, it's just moving so fast in the other direction that it constantly misses the Earth :).