I’m in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write
So I sent all the founders an email asking what surprised them about
about startups. I hope the ones on other topics are right, but I
have no way to test them. The ones on startups get tested by about
70 people every 6 months.
starting a startup. This amounts to asking what I got wrong, because
if I’d explained things well enough, nothing should have surprised
them. I’m proud to report I got one response saying:What surprised me the most is that everything was actually
fairly predictable!The bad news is that I got over 100 other responses listing the
There were very clear patterns in the responses; it was remarkable
surprises they encountered.
how often several people had been surprised by exactly the same
thing. These were the biggest:
via paulgraham.com
Great stuff – thanks @dapunster
