In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.
From Paul Graham
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
Some people just get what they want in the world.
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
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