Topic
Competition
Every resource in the archive tagged with competition.
12 resources
Letter2002 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos
Apr 2003 · 12 min read
How Amazon turned customer experience into a fixed cost to deliver both great service and low prices.
EssayEmployee Retention
Sam Altman
5 min read
Why keeping early employees matters more than hiring them, and three strategies that actually work.
EssayThe Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Paul Graham
Apr 2006 · 21 min read
The counterintuitive lessons startups repeatedly fail to learn: release early, keep improving, make users happy, and fear the right threats.
VideoEric Schmidt on why most companies get strategy wrong
Eric Schmidt
Mar 2026 · 1 min read
Why strategy should start from what the world will look like in five years, not from your products.
EssayThe Case for the Fat Startup
Ben Horowitz
Mar 2010 · 13 min read
Running lean is a tactic, not an end; sometimes heavy investment in R&D and product wins the market despite cash constraints.
EssayLead Bullets
Ben Horowitz
Nov 2011 · 7 min read
When facing an existential threat, stop looking for clever shortcuts and do the hard work to fix your core problem.
EssayPeacetime CEO / Wartime CEO
Ben Horowitz
Apr 2011 · 11 min read
In peacetime, it’s all about growth.
EssayHow You Know
Paul Graham
May 2003 · 25 min read
Why startups beat incumbents in design wars: design-by-committee deliberately trades away upside to avoid downside.
EssayHow to Make Wealth
Paul Graham
May 2004 · 39 min read
Starting a startup is the most reliable way to compress your earning potential by working intensely for a few years instead of a lifetime.
EssaySchlep Blindness
Paul Graham
Jan 2012 · 4 min read
Great startup ideas fail because our unconscious mind avoids problems requiring tedious, difficult work.
EssayHow to Get Startup Ideas
Paul Graham
Nov 2012 · 32 min read
The best startup ideas come from problems you have yourself, not from trying to think of startup ideas.
EssayGuide to Startups, Part 2: When the VCs say no
Marc Andreessen
Jun 2007 · 11 min read
How to reduce layers of risk in your startup plan after VCs say no.