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How to Get Startup Ideas

Paul Graham · 1 Nov 2012

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Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.

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.

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  1. 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.

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