Startup Timing
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Masters of Scale
2 statements about Startup Timing, every show
Hoffman: Entrepreneurs must enter trends 1-3 years early to build momentum
“As a strategic entrepreneur, you're not trying to get in at the peak of a trend. You're trying to be one to three years early so you can have time to build toward it. So when the moment arrives, you already have momentum while everyone else scrambles to get up…”
Hu: Startup Timing Is Beyond Founder Control and Acts as Critical Multiplier
“You could have a great idea, you could have a great team, and also great investors, but sometimes the timing is just something you don't control, and you could have all those other things be amazing, but the timing is so hard, and that's what gives you sometim…”