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Re:Y Combinator presents 26 new startups by jacoblyles on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @09:57PM (#1214697)
Ideas matter too. If you have really smart and capable people working on a product that not many people are going to use, then they're not going to be very successful.

Programming smarts != market smarts.

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Re:Y Combinator presents 26 new startups by danicgross on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @01:20AM (#1215035)
people matter more. good people know how to fail bad ideas quickly and come up with better ones. good people > good ideas.
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