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But there are many other companies not doing what YC recommends who do just fine and that is the point. Advice is great but be careful what you think it teaches you.


Probabalistic advice is different from deterministic advice in that there are exceptions to the rules. Assuming you are the exception as an excuse to avoid the rules generally results in worse performance rather than better. Avoiding the advice entirely without even trying to comprehend why you are the exception seems to border on certifiable to me.


You are trying to prove a point which makes no sense to prove.

There are many ways to success following advice can both take you down the right and the wrong path so can not following it.

There is only one test and that is reality. If you believe otherwise you are fooling yourself imho.




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