Houston: Solving personal frustrations beats MBA-style market analysis for startup ideas
Drew Houston · #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration · Apr 9, 2014 · at 1:40:03
Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, discusses how entrepreneurs should discover and validate new startup ideas.
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“Focusing on a problem that you're, that really bothers you or that you're really excited about tends to Be better than trying to do a market analysis or a more kind of, you know, traditional kind of MBA approach.”
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