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<p>Starting something that meets a genuine need, and that grows so that it meets that need for more and more people over time, looks good. Starting something for the sake of starting something looks like…well, like starting something for the sake of starting something.</p>
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<p>I get that. Remember, every year there are more Yale freshmen than there are INTEL winners. Not everybody at Yale did something “super cool.” The trouble is, nobody knows a way to ensure that you’ll be among the small fraction of non-INTEL-winners who’ll ultimately be admitted to Yale. (Or Stanford or Williams or…)</p>