Are You Prepared to Pay the Real Price of Startup Success?
Because big businesses aren’t built on gimmicks. You can blitz your way through Sand Hill Road and spike up the App Store charts on gimmicks, but you can’t actually use them to replace Gmail, or Salesforce, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram. Even seemingly instant successes can’t become lasting companies without putting in the... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company
John Koenig • Edward Lando
Advice for other startup founders:
1. Starting a company is annoying and hard in ways you shouldn't expect anyone else to validate or sympathize with
2. The average service job is at least 10x harder
3. Believing you can change the world is only useful as an early motivator, the second... See more