Re:Tap Into Y Combinator's Contrarian Thinking
by pg on Thursday May 23, 2013 @02:30PM
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It's certainly not sufficient, but it's close to necessary for startups, because startups generally have to do something no one else is already doing.
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Re:Tap Into Y Combinator's Contrarian Thinking
by tptacek on Thursday May 23, 2013 @07:38PM
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Counterpoint: Dropbox.
("Better" is obviously a form of "different", but I don't think that's the implication of your comment.)
I would say that the counterthinking was to insist on something that a lot of people (including some big players) were doing, without any real success.
But I admit there is some wishfull thinking there, as I am in this position. My startup is a private social network, a field with a lot of high profile players (Path and some YC companies), and still no one nailed it.