The next Microsoft was a search engine. The next Google was a social network. What will the next Facebook be?
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I've seen the pattern over and over in YC interviews.
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ah, now I understand: you have a sample set bias problem. Agree MBAs who apply to YC are less likely to be on path toward success.
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agree on the side projects point. Cloudflare grew out of a side project as did most of the successful companies friends have started.
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disagree "harder for MBAs." That does not align with my personal experience or the experience I witnessed watching fellow students.
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There is a greater risk with MBAs of being business model driven. I started Cuddli based on business opportunity, not solving real problems.
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That said, our team kept at it. We kept tinkering. We stayed invested long after we should have written off sunk cost and pulled the plug.
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We are now the world's largest geek dating community (somehow) and we haven't even shipped our iOS app yet.
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One interesting data point is that we started growing after we all moved Cuddli to a side project. Causal? Just correlated? Not sure.
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I think MBA or no MBA, building something people love that solves a real problem is the right starting point. Without that, it won't work.
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I focused too much on building a business model I thought investors would love. More: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/no-business-is-bulletproof-get-over-it-465212077272 …
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Tinkering works because you can iterate fast and stumble upon some "simplex" solution that no "proper" business plan would ever aim for.
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school, including business school, provides a great Petri dish to allow side projects to germinate into something larger.
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