Be the cockroaches of the corporate world

17 Oct 2008

Excellent startup advice from Paul Graham:

...the surest route to success is to be the cockroaches of the corporate world. The immediate cause of death in a startup is always running out of money. The cheaper your company is to operate, the harder it is to kill. Fortunately it has gotten very cheap to run a startup, and a recession will if anything make it cheaper still.

Also, "make things that save money."

Posted by John on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM

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