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Top startup questions and answers from the Ask YCombinator Archive
If you have not bookmarked it yet, the Startups wiki "Ask YCombinator Archive" is a great resource for everything entrepreneurial.
I have pulled out some of the most insightful, entertaining and resourceful discussions and highlighted them for you here.
Is acquisition a valid exit strategy?
One of the best quotes in this discussion is "You should never be in a position where you depend on getting bought." by mojuba. Like David Heinemeier Hansson said at Startup School 08:
Great Application
+ Earnings
= Profit
He is biased towards a pay-for-subscription approach but the takeway is: as long as your revenue (advertising or subscriptions fees) covers your costs (and then some) you are on your way to building a real business.
Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital
At StartupSchool 2008, Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital.
This is the last video that I will feature from this series. To watch them all, head over to omnisio.com and watch the rest (The 'listen to your users' video by Paul Buchheit is particularly good although it is very similar to his SS2007 speech).
