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Actually it's easy to get startup ideas once you're good at technology.
Once you're good at some technology, when you look at the world you
see dotted outlines around the things that are missing. You start
to be able to see both the things that are missing from the technology
itself, and all the broken things that could be fixed using it, and
each one of these is a potential startup.
How to Start Google
paulgraham.com
The best way to make sure your curiosity is authentic is to hold the mindset that, in spite of how perceptive you think you might be and how well you think you know another person, you don’t actually know what’s going on for them. That keeps you naïve in the best sense of the word. And with this naïve curiosity, you are more likely to use questions that encourage disclosure.
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David Bradford and Carole Robin
Business History.In the early years of Constellation Software, Mark Leonard would lead the acquisition process, focusing on wholly acquiring their first VMS companies. The attraction to VMS was born from the fact that each software offering tends to be mission critical to users and each market is small enough that competition is insulated from the big players who could not rationalize spending in these small TAMs. Additionally, the recurring nature of most revenues and minimal maintenance capex makes software inherently attractive (much more on this later).
Constellation Software Introduction
speedwellsnippets.substack.com
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