www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Myth #2: You need a lot of money to start. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. It was only in 1998 when Andy Bechtolsheim invested $100,000 in Google, Inc. They had proven themselves before they received an investment.

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