By Larry Chiang
You’re sitting there in Engineering 145 and as part of the class, you must cofound a startup.
So you do and later you find out there is a company that does what you created. This multiple site discovery is very common.

#ENGR145s is about selling something that already exists
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Sales. Customer development cycle to gin up sales. And sell what exists #ENGR145s [#CTCFTR] pic.twitter.com/cQOh9vyTBg
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This person is selling Uber and making $750 per driver that signs up.

Focus on the dotted region and the cigar shaped graph above the dotted region.