<story><title>Startup Playbook</title><url>https://playbook.samaltman.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monero-xmr</author><text>Safest way to start an enterprise SaaS startup is to have a buyer lined up before it’s founded.&lt;p&gt;The way to have a buyer before founding is to have worked at an established, profitable firm that has that exact problem, cannot build a solution themselves, and get a signed agreement from them to buy your future product. If you leave that firm and have that document, you can raise money, then use that money to hire a team, then build the product and fulfill the contract.&lt;p&gt;Getting into such a position requires an established career. Therefore safe, reliable entrepreneurs cannot possibly be college drop outs - they need to be established careerists with good connections who have entrepreneurial ambitions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Startup Playbook</title><url>https://playbook.samaltman.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alberth</author><text>Some unsolicited advice …&lt;p&gt;You can succeed in achieving everything in that playbook, and still fail.&lt;p&gt;Life can be brutal.&lt;p&gt;Appreciate the importance of timing &amp;amp; luck.&lt;p&gt;Stars need to align &amp;amp; lots of things are out of your control. Like an unexpected global pandemic, a persons health turning bad, or simply a key customer not paying timely - are all things that can tank your perfect business and more.</text></comment>