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Business & Startups
How startups differ from small businesses: growth as the defining trait, finding product-market fit, unit economics, default alive vs dead, and how venture funding works.
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Prereqs: Personal finance; Corporate survival. Next: Marketing & attention. Sources: Paul Graham essays, 'Startup = Growth' (2012), 'Default Alive or Default Dead?' (2015); Marc Andreessen, 'The Only Thing That Matters' (2007); Peter Thiel, *Zero to One* (2014).Next: 1. Growth