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Luck is necessary but not sufficient. But I left it off the list because telling people to "be lucky" is difficult to act on.

I've recently seen interesting arguments that optimism creates luck by enabling you to recognize more opportunities.

There are things other than luck that are out of the control of the startup.

Here is a quote: "In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product out of the startup."