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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

You dont want mere voting; you need unanimity. 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. Dont do what we did.

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