Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
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Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
.@37signals is a very different kind of company:
→ They make tens of millions in profit each year
→ With fewer than 80 employees
→ No investors, no board
→ No growth goals
→ No experiments
→ No sales, no marketing spend
→ Teams are two max 2 people (1... See more
Lenny Rachitskyx.comSoftware startups face the same dilemma. Basecamp’s founders famously turned down VC money and capped headcount. They wanted to stay small on purpose. Not to signal humility, to preserve sovereignty. They understood that the minute you optimize for scale, you subordinate every other variable to it. Product quality, user intimacy, personal time -... See more