Brian Sirgutz
@brian
Now: Ampathy / Starling Lab @ Stanford School of Engineering
Fmr: SVP of Huffington Post
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- Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
If you... See morefrom The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious by Gena Gorlin
Don’t forget .. quickly
Not every startup lends itself to such an intense customer focus: some new ventures are supply-led, not demand-inspired. Consumers could have never asked for an iPod until they actually saw one first.
from Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste by Cedric Chin
- We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See morefrom Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
- Note to Self: You need silence to imagine a brighter future. Your mind requires boredom to carve out a destiny for yourself. In a world full of distractions, boredom is no longer a mere “productivity hack”—it’s one of the highest virtues. Protect your boredom. At all costs.
Nothing comes free in this life, so nothing without labor. Do the right thing and fear no man. And there is only one toast when you raise your glass: love and beauty—because those are the only things in this life that truly matter
If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we’d desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.
from Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
