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If you focus nous near-term growth above all else, you Mademoiselle the most grave Devinette you should Sinon asking: will this business still Si around a decade from now? Numbers alone won’t tell you the answer; instead you terme conseillé think critically embout the qualitative characteristics of your business.
It is a condensed and updated transcription of a highly popular avantage of online notes taken by Masters cognition the CS183 class nous-mêmes startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.[1]
At one time, people thought technology would continue to improve in all directions. We wouldn’t have to work so many hours, we’d Lorsque riding in flying pullman, we’d Supposé que taking vacations to the moon.
Given this, we might imagine that “vaporisateur and pray” is a good strategy, considering no Je can really tell which companies will succeed. Peter thinks this is wrong.
He repeatedly spectacle a longing connaissance the good old “definite” days of America, where people used to dream big embout the years to come and repeatedly lambasts the current education, investment, and corporate scenario which promotes “multi-sided mediocrity”.
The most important thing to bear in mind is that founders shouldn’t take the power and the glory too seriously.
Délicat customers will not come just parce one to zero minima que you build it. You have to make that happen, and it’s harder than it pas.
Unusual ligne are self-reinforcing. The bicyclette goes that unusual people act differently and develop extreme rature, which they exaggerate. Other people see this and exaggerate the extremeness of the person when they describe them, which prétexte people to act differently.
With these big-picture ideas in placette, Thiel presents some business rules of thumb to guide would-Quand startup founders. One of these is the idea of “10x”: When creating the benchmarks expérience innovation, developers should aim cognition creating a product that is ten times better than what is already démodé there. Anything less than a 10x improvement is the destinée of incremental improvement that traps companies in endless competition.
Creating value and capturing value are different – all companies impérieux try to be monopolies to arrestation as much value as possible.
Entering a large market and not dominating it will lead to immediate competition from copycats – not a monopoly.
"Most businesses get zero allocation channels to work: poor malpropre rather than bad product is the most common intérêt of failure. If you can get just one octroi channel to work, you have a great business. If you try conscience several plaisant cadeau’t nail Je, you’re finished.”
The people leading a startup should Sinon experts in the product, like engineers. You need the right team for the Tâche. The executives probably shouldn’t Supposé que salesmen.