*There’s an ongoing debate about whether startups should focus on harder problem...

		DivisibleByZero on July 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Marc Andreessen “tried really hard not to invent a... There’s an ongoing debate about whether startups should focus on harder problems. Is there a really a debate or am I missing something? This is honestly the first thing I have seen supporting not solving a problem. Really I think there is a place for both. He mentions avoiding the problem of search, which happened to be the foundation of a particularly successful company.

> Really I think there is a place for both.

There is, but the sense is that things have shifted out of proportion.