Danny Castonguay

Danny Castonguay

Product leader.

The hardest lessons for startups to learn by Paul Graham

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I’m very much a beginner when it comes to reading texts out loud, but I find it useful because it makes me remember the texts that I read better. Below I have recorded myself reading an essay from Paul Graham entitled “The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn”, which he published in April 2006.

The hardest lessons for startups to learn

The hardest lessons for startups to learn.

  1. Release early.
  2. Keep pumping out features.
  3. Make users happy.
  4. Fear the right things.
  5. Commitment is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  6. There is always room.
  7. Don’t get your hopes up.
  8. Speed, not money.

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