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Startups are small, recently-founded companies that are looking to grow much larger. They generally seek funding through venture capital investors.

Ex­ams-Only Universities

Mati_Roy6 Nov 2022 22:05 UTC
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Write a busi­ness plan already

bfinn25 Mar 2021 0:13 UTC
17 points
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Ar­bital postmortem

alexei30 Jan 2018 13:48 UTC
228 points
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[Question] What are things you’re al­lowed to do as a startup?

Elizabeth20 Jun 2024 0:01 UTC
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microwave drilling is impractical

bhauth12 Jun 2024 22:16 UTC
58 points
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(www.bhauth.com)

What’s the most an­noy­ing part of your life/​job?

Liron23 Oct 2016 3:37 UTC
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Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusr28 Dec 2021 7:32 UTC
91 points
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The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC
94 points
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Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)

AnnaSalamon9 Dec 2015 18:59 UTC
99 points
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Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 2 - De­cid­ing to call it quits

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 4:17 UTC
42 points
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Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 0:42 UTC
55 points
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Develop skills, or “dive in” and start a startup?

Adam Zerner26 May 2017 18:07 UTC
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Salary or startup? How do-good­ers can gain more from risky careers

Adam Zerner5 Feb 2014 22:54 UTC
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Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 4 - Smaller things that I’ve learned

Adam Zerner11 Oct 2019 1:26 UTC
21 points
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[Question] What does it look like for AI to sig­nifi­cantly im­prove hu­man co­or­di­na­tion, be­fore su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

jacobjacob15 Jan 2024 19:22 UTC
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story-based de­ci­sion-making

bhauth7 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC
89 points
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The Mom Test: Sum­mary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC
48 points
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Co­he­sion and busi­ness problems

Adam Zerner19 Apr 2024 0:45 UTC
12 points
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Startup Suc­cess Rates Are So Low Be­cause the Re­wards Are So Large

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2024 20:22 UTC
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How To Get Startup Ideas: A Brief Lit Re­view and Analysis

Adam Zerner30 Mar 2023 20:33 UTC
21 points
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Slack Group: Ra­tion­al­ist Startup Founders

Adam Zerner3 Apr 2023 0:44 UTC
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Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 3 - What I’ve learned

Adam Zerner11 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC
28 points
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Ret­ro­spec­tive: Les­sons from the Failed Align­ment Startup AISafety.com

Søren Elverlin12 May 2023 18:07 UTC
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How to Make Billions of Dol­lars Re­duc­ing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC
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Mo­rale man­age­ment for entrepreneurs

John_Maxwell30 Sep 2012 5:35 UTC
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Pas­sive in­come for dummies

John_Maxwell27 Oct 2012 7:25 UTC
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[Question] How of­ten do se­ries C star­tups fail to exit?

Jessica Shu21 Sep 2020 19:37 UTC
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Think like a con­sul­tant not a salesperson

Adam Zerner22 Jul 2023 19:31 UTC
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[Question] Would you pay for a search en­g­ine limited to ra­tio­nal­ist sites?

Conor2 Aug 2023 18:06 UTC
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Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day

Zvi12 Sep 2023 13:20 UTC
38 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Learn­ing-In­ten­tions vs Do­ing-In­ten­tions

Ruby1 Jan 2019 22:22 UTC
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Prepar­ing for ambition

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2021 6:13 UTC
19 points
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Who de­cides what should be worked on?

Aglaya Ivanovna1 Aug 2021 17:26 UTC
39 points
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Ap­pro­pri­ately Gray Products

Adam Zerner6 Oct 2021 0:56 UTC
20 points
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[Linkpost] Paul Gra­ham 101

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Nov 2021 16:52 UTC
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Microstartup Sto­ries: Ini­tial Thoughts

Adam Zerner27 Nov 2022 1:22 UTC
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YCom­bi­na­tor fraud rates

Xodarap25 Dec 2022 19:21 UTC
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Star­tups are like firewood

Adam Zerner5 Mar 2023 23:09 UTC
26 points
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Startup Stock Op­tions: the Short­est Com­plete Guide for Employees

Boris T5 Jun 2024 15:03 UTC
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(borisagain.substack.com)

In­tro­duc­ing Leap Labs, an AI in­ter­pretabil­ity startup

Jessica Rumbelow6 Mar 2023 16:16 UTC
102 points
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Be less scared of overconfidence

benkuhn30 Nov 2022 15:20 UTC
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(www.benkuhn.net)

How Less­wrong helped me make $25K: A ra­tio­nal pric­ing strategy

kareemabukhadra21 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC
50 points
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Tim Dillon’s fake busi­ness is the most in­fluen­tial video I have watched in the last 24 months

Stuart Johnson22 Jul 2024 12:54 UTC
−4 points
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(youtu.be)

How & when to write a busi­ness plan

bfinn15 Apr 2021 15:45 UTC
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[Question] Donat­ing Bit­coin to Cri­sis Zones—Is there a plat­form col­lat­ing and ver­ify­ing pub­lic key ad­dress for in­di­vi­d­u­als in con­flict zones which al­lows donors to send Bit­coin di­rectly to them?

Siddhartha Gautama27 May 2021 8:20 UTC
2 points
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Who wants to run a B2B SaaS startup?

jefftk17 Jun 2021 13:40 UTC
12 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

There Should Be More Align­ment-Driven Startups

31 May 2024 2:05 UTC
60 points
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En­trepreneur­ship ETG Might Be Bet­ter Than 80k Thought

Xodarap29 Dec 2022 17:51 UTC
33 points
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[Question] What area of the digi­tal do­main seems safe from AI in the next 5-10 years?

Adrien Chauvet24 Jan 2023 1:16 UTC
11 points
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Fix­ing Mo­ral Hazards In Busi­ness Science

DavidLS18 Oct 2014 21:10 UTC
50 points
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Sugges­tion: Read Paul Graham

katydee23 Mar 2013 3:23 UTC
54 points
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A pro­posed sys­tem for ideas jumpstart

Valentin202614 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC
4 points
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Me­taMed: Ev­i­dence-Based Healthcare

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2013 13:16 UTC
112 points
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On Cut­ting Wages

Zvi24 Dec 2015 21:11 UTC
10 points
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In a world… of ven­ture capital

Zvi15 May 2015 14:02 UTC
6 points
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Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedman16 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
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Good busi­nesses cre­ate epistemic monopolies

Logan Kieller15 Nov 2023 14:04 UTC
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(logankieller.substack.com)

The un­rea­son­able effec­tive­ness of plas­mid se­quenc­ing as a service

Abhishaike Mahajan8 Oct 2024 2:02 UTC
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(www.owlposting.com)

[Question] Ti­tan (the Wealth­front of ac­tive stock pick­ing) - What’s the catch?

Liron6 Aug 2020 1:06 UTC
10 points
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Can star­tups be im­pact­ful in AI safety?

13 Sep 2024 19:00 UTC
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Abun­dance and scarcity; work­ing for­wards and work­ing backwards

Quinn18 Feb 2022 19:05 UTC
28 points
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[Question] What Should I Do To­day?

Cui18 Mar 2022 16:36 UTC
10 points
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Quixey—startup ap­ply­ing LW-style ra­tio­nal­ity—hiring engineers

Liron28 Sep 2011 4:50 UTC
39 points
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Why AI may not save the World

Alberto Zannoni9 Jun 2023 17:42 UTC
0 points
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(a16z.com)

Eval­u­at­ing GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Gra­ham’s philosophy

VipulNaik12 Apr 2014 14:04 UTC
25 points
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