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by laurex 1476 days ago
Agreed.

And to reference the idea of flexibility- the ideal scenario in my mind is to love the problem, and possibly just as important, love the customer you're going to be serving for years, and be very dispassionate about the solution until you find a way to solve the problem in such a way that your ideal customers value it highly.

It's completely possible to simply be interested in finding a solvable problem with a good "market" and a clear path to making money, but I think really great companies typically reflect at least some level of passion for the problem space they are in (or were in as they became a success). If there are counter-examples, I am interested.

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Great patent trolls? Counter example