The things worth building a business around are the ones that will not have changed in ten years, and those are identifiable in advance.

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• You can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use. JBJohn Bai25 Aug 2026
• Basecamp was the best business idea he will ever have: lightning is not caught twice, and a founder's second idea is rarely as good as the first. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025
• Before you raise money, ask what happens if you succeed - whether you will still want this company in ten or thirty years. PCPatrick Collison31 Jul 2026
• Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did. BSBlake Scholl28 Jul 2026
• At this moment, starting a startup is much the same as always. PGPaul Graham13 Oct 2026

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