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Non-Objective Search

2025.08.03 ~1 MIN READ
  • It's a little hard to square novelty search with operating a startup
    • "good bets" are novel, as there is low existing competition
    • but often you are optimizing for revenue, or expected future revenue
    • but, "de-risking" is often the process of identifying and characterizing challenges on the road to a scalable business
      • we essentially end up inverting the market the startup operates in, encoding features of the problem space in the company, process, and codebase
      • once the "long term" desired state of a component becomes obvious, it becomes a lower risk, and ironically becomes a lower priority
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