You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start

Re:You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start by mehrdada on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:35AM (#12947936)

> Startups are overdosing on ambition these days

> Not every billion dollar business starts with a billion dollar idea. Not everything unfundable by VCs is unworthy of doing.

It's interesting the author is being a VC is understandably blinded by the bubble that never reports on such businesses. The vast majority of businesses created in the world, i.e. almost all small businesses, are exactly that. It's been done before and it's being done now, in large quantities. It's just so common that people don't feel writing medium posts about it and you don't tend to call them startups per se without the VC-funding and fast growth factor[1]. If you restrict the definition of a startup to this, then almost by definition you need such ambitious visions.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

I remember Joel Spolsky talked at Startup School a few years back on this subject and he was spot on[2].

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJf8KrvJXU

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Re:You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start by hugs on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:14AM (#12949005)

It looks like you haven't been following Bryce close enough. He put his money (and PR) where his mouth is and started Indie.vc.

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Re:You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start by sean_patel on Saturday November 19, 2016 @05:32PM (#12996084)

Thanks for the Joel Spolsky video. Skip to 12:53 for the gems => https://youtu.be/pPJf8KrvJXU?t=771

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