Graham: Barely any of 1,900 YC startups were killed by competitors
Paul Graham · A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator · Sep 1, 2018 · at 31:15
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham explains to Startup School founders why startups should focus on internal execution rather than obsessing over competitors.
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“What makes companies fail most of the time is poor execution by the founders, right? We often talk to startups who are worried about competitors, and one good, one advantage of YC having funded so many companies is you have a really large data set, and like, how many companies have been killed by competitors? One. More than one, like out of 1900, right?”
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