Deciding to start a startup

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Vital Traits:
- Resilience
- Engaging
- Synergistic
Preparation:
- Find: Idea & Co-founder
- Repeat: Communication & iteration of the idea
- Create: A product that resonates with some than insignificant to a billion
Why not to start?
- Irrelevant components:
  - Age/Experience
  - Smartness
  - Business-savviness
  - Regimental
- Relevant components:
  - Determination
  - Fearless
  - Partnered
  - Independent
Before the startup
- Counterintuitive: Consider partners' advice, even if it seems counterintuitive.
- Expertise: Understand your users and solve their problems, and not in be an expert on startups.
- Game: Don't look for a trick. Make something that people want, and you will succeed only to the extent that you do.
- All-Consuming: Starting a startup will engulf your life in ways you can't fathom, and if it thrives, that engulfment will persist for an extended duration.
- Idea: Allow startup ideas to form organically in your mind without conscious awareness.
- Try: If you're absolutely terrified of launching a startup, it's wise to reconsider. But if you're merely unsure and curious, the only way to dispel doubts is through action.