"If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup."
"Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product."
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