{"id":33415,"date":"2025-05-11T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=33415"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:45:19","slug":"wordpressd-post-by-paul-graham-on-big-bureaucratic-organizations-creating-incubators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wordpressd-post-by-paul-graham-on-big-bureaucratic-organizations-creating-incubators\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress\u2019d Post by Paul Graham on Big Bureaucratic Organizations Creating Incubators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t realize this till recently, but when big, bureaucratic organizations create incubators, the startups that come out of them are damaged from the start by focusing on big customers instead of the scrappy early adopters that successful startups usually sell to.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I didn’t realize this till recently, but when big, bureaucratic organizations create incubators, the startups that come out of them are damaged from the start by focusing on big customers instead of the scrappy early adopters that successful startups usually sell to<\/div>\n
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I’m sure these big organizations usually have the best intentions. They want to get themselves some of that exciting startup mojo they’re usually deprived of. But there’s a reason the market deprives them of it: they don’t deserve it, because they’re so slow to decide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Which in turn suggests an organic way for these big organizations to attract startups. Don’t be painful to sell to. If you do that, you won’t have to create incubators. The startups will come to you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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    Paul Graham \u2066\u202a@paulg\u202c\u2069 I didn’t realize this till recently, but when big, bureaucratic organizations create incubators, the startups that come out of them are damaged from the start by focusing on big customers instead of the scrappy early adopters that successful startups usually sell to.   5\/11\/25, 6:30\u202fAM     I didn’t realize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}