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How to Start a Startup

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You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer.

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