22 Vital Startup Tips From Y Combinator | Houck's Newsletter
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22 Vital Startup Tips From Y Combinator | Houck's Newsletter
There’s a tool that can help you test whether your deliberate strategy or a new emergent one will be a fruitful approach. It forces you to articulate what assumptions need to be proved true in order for the strategy to succeed. The academics who created this process, Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath, called it “discovery-driven planning,” but it migh
... See moreClayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
- The Engineering Question Can you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? 2. The Timing Question Is now the right time to start your particular business? 3. The Monopoly Question Are you starting with a big share of a small market? 4. The People Question Do you have the right team? 5. The Distribution Question Do you have
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
How to Prioritize Your Time : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
ycombinator.comEntrepreneurial Strategy There are four things an entrepreneur needs: a good idea, a good team, a good product, and a good business model. Interviewing customers, assessing the market, building a MVP, and iterating are all tactics. In the long run, how do we dominate a significant market? In the short term, entrepreneurs tend to focus on a large ma... See more
Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy
market. I listen to many founders, and some think they want to challenge every single assumption in an industry, and I push back. Most successful founders were challenging one or two major assumptions in their industry. They’re creating a solution because they think there are one or two assumptions that just make no sense. They’ve asked why, why, w
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
STRATEGY Your plan What Explain your project or business idea to a stranger. What problems does it solve or need does it meet? What are your goals for this project? Make a list of your strengths and weaknesses. What are your top three…
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