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by ignoramous
2127 days ago
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> ...many successful founders have an intuitive understanding for what the problem is... Or put it another way, founders solving a problem they themselves have with just enough skill to build an initial solution. Subconsciously many of us forego start-up ideas due to what Paul Graham described as schelp blindness [0]. > Validation is good but often it plays second fiddle to really understanding the problem domain and understanding how the solution is a good fit. Often times, what the founders set out to build and what they end up getting to product-market fit with are often different things even when they intuitively understand the problem-domain. An example that comes to mind is https://meesho.com, a Unicorn now (with a very different product though roughly in the same domain), but back then failed to raise any capital on YC demo-day [1]. [0] http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L325PVEvm7Q |
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