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Advice about how to create a good startup turns out to be more generalizable that I originally thought. The hardest problems--mostly around people--are more si

• jacquesm 11y ago
  > The hardest problems--mostly around people--are more similar than they seem. That's a good point and reflects my own experience. But I'd be hard pressed to generalize what I've learned in my career in IT/IT related start-ups and take that and apply it to say a company that creates a new medicine or one that tries to commercialize some new medical instrument. The sales avenues in that domain are radically different from 'just' IT based start-ups and just like I wouldn't see a bio-tech person run an IT firm the reverse probably holds true as well, ditto for advice to such management. I recently had a long and in-depth look at an organization that sells a lot of physical goods on-line and even in that case there was so much domain knowledge wrt to the retail portion of it that without a CEO with significant knowledge in that particular field they wouldn't have stood a chance. Anyway, you're doing pretty good so far, can't wait to see you prove me wrong :)
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• untilHellbanned 11y ago
  >The hardest problems--mostly around people-- Not quite. YC has been successful selling to people. Biotech isn't selling to people. The drug sells itself. It either works or it doesn't. Science doesn't care what we want.