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by 100k 5937 days ago
Paul surveyed the YC founders a while back to find out what surprised them about founding a startup, and when he collated the answers he realized all the things that were surprising where things he'd already warned people about.

It's an old saw that wisdom cannot be taught, it must be experienced.

I have found this to be true.

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Really excellent to know. I didn't believe quite how much disruption gets caused by raising money. Keeping on selling and working at the product while that's happening is desperately hard.