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During an interview[1] (with one of the AirBnB founders no less), pg offered the general advice that startups should search for success using a hill climbing algorithm, and not worry about dangerous local maximums; only to be immediately confronted with the counter example of AirBnB (the cereal episode).That company just seems to be an outlier in multiple categories.
[1] http://youtu.be/nrWavoJsEks at about 7:00
⬐ jacquesmWhich is amusing if you realize that VC depends on outliers in order to make it to the next cycle.In other words: the only worthwhile companies for VCs are the ones that do not follow the set patterns and to which the rules do not apply.
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Apr 27, 2015
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Ask HN: My SaaS is stuck at $10K MRR, now what?
I had this PG advice tagged:"When growth plateaus you pretty much have to start from scratch. You have to treat your situation as if you needed to come with a new startup idea. You can't just somehow revitalize things."