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A comment on Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (1997).

Re:Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (1997) by twic on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:25AM (#42781119)
> Being the world expert is vitally important to meeting the new product criteria I’ll discuss in a moment. If you aren’t the world expert, you’re just kidding yourself about your chances for success.

This is interesting. Makes sense. But it's absolutely not part of the modern theory of startups, is it?

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Re:Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (1997) by kragen on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:41AM (#42781318)
If you don't have either investors (he's talking about bootstrapping) or world-class expertise, it's going to be pretty hard to launch a successful startup. You may be thinking of venture-funded startups, but he's not.
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