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I like this other quote by Sam better: startups: growth solves nearly every problem, and if you don't have growth nothing will solve your problem. (Ref: https:
by dude_abides 14y ago
I like this other quote by Sam better: startups: growth solves nearly every problem, and if you don't have growth nothing will solve your problem.
(Ref: https://twitter.com/sama/status/289918007151583232 https://twitter.com/sama/status/289918007151583232 )
Corollary: if you don't have growth, endurance will not solve your problem.
- webwright 14y agoExcept when it does. Many/most startups experience the trough of sorrow ( http://andrewchen.co/2012/09/10/after-the-techcrunch-bump-life-in-the-trough-of-sorrow/ http://andrewchen.co/2012/09/10/after-the-techcrunch-bump-li... ). Hard to know when to throw up the white flag... But the ones that win certainly refused to do so when all/most of their data showed them that they should. tl;dr irrational (at the time) perseverance is a necessary but not sufficient trait for startup success.