Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
— Paul Graham
Treat a startup as an optimization problem in which performance is measured by number of users.
— Paul Graham
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
— Paul Graham
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
— Paul Graham
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.