This is some great advice; you might end up watching the video twice. Favourite quotes:
1. “You should never start a startup just for doing so. There are much easier ways to get rich … the specific passion should come first and the startup, second.”
2. “The world needs you to do it. If it’s not something the world needs, go do something the world needs.”
9. “When really successful startup founders tell the story of their early days, it’s almost always sitting in front of the computer working on their product or talking to customers. That’s pretty much all the time. They do little else.”
10. “It’s better to build something that a small number of users love than a large number of users like.”
If you’re out of time, you can scan the write-up via Venture Beat, or subscribe via the Stanford site.
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