This was hilarious, yet with a grain of truth: "Now, if you throw two engineers and a designer together and tell them to come up with a new startup idea, you've got better than 50% odds they will come up with another mobile local social photo sharing app."
Reminded me of PG's comment about why people overlooked the Stripe opportunity: "For over a decade, every hacker who'd ever had to process payments online knew how painful the experience was. Thousands of people must have known about this problem. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events."
Reminded me of PG's comment about why people overlooked the Stripe opportunity: "For over a decade, every hacker who'd ever had to process payments online knew how painful the experience was. Thousands of people must have known about this problem. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events."
http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html