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Frighteningly ambitous ideas

[WHAT]

  1. ] I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire. That might sound like an attractive prospect, and yet when I describe these ideas you may notice you find yourself shrinking away from them

[WHY]

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[WHERE]

  1. ] READ THE FULL ARTICLE
    1. ] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html 

[WHEN]

  1. ] 2012-03

[EXAMPLE]

  1. ] A new search engine - 
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  2. ] Replace email -
    1. ] email is really a "todo" list - a frighteningly bad "to do"list
  3. ] Replace Universities -
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  4. ] Internet Drama -
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  5. ] The next Steve Jobs
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  6. ] Bring back Moores law
    1. ]  computer hw used to double in power (and half in cost) approx every 18 months, it doesnt do that any more
  7. ] Ongoing Diagnosis
    1. ] medical - early detection of many common conditions (blocked arteries, diabetes, ) should be something we can get a lot better at, uses the example of bill clinton who's heart condition (blocked arteries) wasnt detected until (90% blockage) and this was someone with access to the the best healthcare available. OBSTACLES include false alarms, 1000 years of medical tradition
  8. ] Tactics - strategies for building/attempting 1 of the above
    1. ] start small - Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew at first how big their companies were going to get. All they knew was that they were onto something. Maybe it's a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially, because the bigger your ambition, the longer it's going to take, and the further you project into the future, the more likely you'll get it wrong
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DESCRIPTION: Paul Graham, founder @ycombinator - SUMMARY Paul's Essay on what he calls, "frighteningly ambitious" startup ideas, Graham lays out some big ideas for startups that could disrupt the way we do things going forward, TAG investor

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