Advice for entrepreneurs - Deepstash

Advice for entrepreneurs

  • The right founders. The founders have to be smart and good but more importantly the project they are working on needs to be their life's work.
  • You need to have some luck.
  • Be careful about how much margin you have. The ideal business is to have a business like Microsoft — a monopoly software business with hardware competitors — who are competing for good treatment by you — in a growing industry.

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