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Re:Hard Startups by whack on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:58PM (#22428389)
> If you want to start a company working on a better way to build homes, gene editing, artificial general intelligence, a new education system, or carbon sequestration, you may actually be able to get it funded, even if you don’t have a degree or much experience.

Is this actually true? I have plenty of "hard startups" that I would love to work on. But these hard startups require far more investments and manpower, even to get to the MVP stage. As someone with minimal prior-startup-success and investor-contacts, I get the impression that no one is going to bet significant sums on me and my unproven idea. Am I wrong?

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Re:Hard Startups by arbitrarylimit on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:33PM (#22429129)
You're skipping over the previous sentence, which is that you convince people you're serious about it.
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Re:Hard Startups by fogetti on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:14PM (#22428534)
That's a fair point. My impression is that most hard startups are started by founders who come from academia.
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