Paul Graham
- How to Get Startup Ideas – The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they’re something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.
- “As long as you’re over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is determination.” — “What We Look For in Founders”
- “It’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy.” — “Startups in 13 Sentences”
- “In a sense there’s just one mistake that kills startups: not making something users want.” — “The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups”