The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Born to Do Startups (And Why It Is Easier Than Ever Before)

26 Feb 2023 · 0 min

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Dharmesh Shah argues that starting a company is now cheaper and easier than ever. He compares modern startups to cockroaches: hardy, low-cost ventures that survive on minimal capital. This low barrier means resilient entrepreneurs keep innovating and making personal sacrifices, driven by what he calls a genetic flaw that pushes them toward building.

Getting started is much easier, much simpler than it's ever been. I mean this in a positive way. Early-stage startups now are essentially like— it's going to sound so wrong, but they're like cockroaches. They're not going to die, right? Because there's no reason for them to die because it doesn't take that much money to keep them going, essentially. So you will always have kind of resilient entrepreneurs that will continue to kind of innovate because it doesn't take that much money and they'll make the sacrifice because they have the genetic flaw that causes them to do startups.