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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by dshah on Friday March 23, 2007 @02:04PM (#5949)
Well, I could argue (and will) that the two are not mutually exclusive. Startups that think at least a wee bit about how to build a business may earn themselves more runway and hence have higher chances of ultimately building something users will love.
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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by paul on Friday March 23, 2007 @04:01PM (#5978)
I have never met a YC company that wasn't thinking about how to build a business.

The key thing to understand is that if problem A is 100 times harder than problem B, and problem A is critical to success, then you should spend a lot of time worrying about problem A. In this case, problem A is building something that people will want to use. If you fail at that, then none of the other problems matter, because you have failed.

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