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I have this magical formula for building a startup that is 100% guaranteed to work, but no-one discusses.

- Do something illegal, then lobby for your rights!

- DDOS your competition

- Be evil

- Ignore regulations designed to protect your workforce (often referred to as 'partners', hah!)

- Tell everyone you have a special insight in making successful startups - something to do with 'hustle' and 'product market fit'

- Burn investor money while shouting stuff about self driving cars

- Underpay your staff and/or take a huge cut of their value

- Take massive equity stakes in already existing/launched companies and call it seed funding

- Be Elon Musk

/snark

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Another business plan that can be very profitable:

- Build something rather generic, mediocre, but serviceable

- Donate a lot to politician campaigns

- Enthusiastically explain how great it would be if people (or a certain segment of people) were required to use a product with certain requirements

- Your product somehow is the only on that matches those requirements

Also known as "how to guarantee the survival of the Z80 architecture well into the 21st Century".

It all sounds uberish too until you mentioned musk

These strategies are intended for individual use but can also be combined for maximum effectiveness.

Maybe you can guess which companies are currently using each strategy. I'll give you one for free; currently Tesla are being very successful with be Elon Musk and burning investor money by talking about self driving cars.

May be Musk can talk because he have proved himself? Shallow talking will not go too far

Wise words indeed Mandeep!

Hi Andy!

I hope I know you. May I ask - how you know my name? If you have figured out my unusual name from my user name then you are exceptionally smart :-)

>Take massive equity steaks

and over cook them

I agree with your points- I can just see Elon Musk reading this from his Emperor Palpatine swivel chair- "Yes, let the hate flow through you!"

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