i do a 1h free for startups, this means i talk a lot with startups of all kinds.<p>sometimes i talk with early stage founders - very, very clever and very passionate people - who have figured everything out. they know what product they will build, what their website will look like, what they URLs will look like, what their marketing campaign will look like, how they will get investment, what their customers will be like.<p>i call this a &quot;perfect start-up&quot;<p>perfect start-ups fail. always. sometimes fast, usually it takes them a long, hard, crappy time.<p>sometimes i talk with early stage founders - very, very clever and very passionate people - who have an idea. they don&#x27;t know what their product will look like, don&#x27;t know what their website will look like, don&#x27;t know what their marketing campaign will look like, don&#x27;t know how they will get investment, don&#x27;t know what their customers will be like. they don&#x27;t even know if their idea is great or shit.<p>i call these &quot;interesting people&quot;<p>they are clever, passionate, willing to listen, willing to work hard ... and sometimes, only sometimes, they succeed.