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Startups & Miracles
To quote Mike Maples, Jr., “startups start out dead and have to prove they are alive”, and because they paint a picture of a future that does not yet exist, “they have to become a movement”. In other words, they have to galvanise people around a potential that does not exist yet.
Fred Destin • Clubhouse, Hype & Startups
sari added
The reality of startup life is that you're in a race to achieve product/market fit before you run out of money.
Arthur Mosh added
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications, ... See more
Do Things that Don't Scale
building a startup is like trying to win an argument.
Ayoola John added
Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
“A startup, if it’s lucky, creates magic, turns that magic into dollars, and transitions to life as a successful Big Muggle Company, capable of enormous profits and power but no longer able to conjure magic.”
Anthony Hobday • Blog
sari added
goal: build magic-scale organizations
“Startups don’t starve; they drown.” There are always a zillion new ideas about how to make the product better floating around, but the hard truth is that most of those ideas make a difference only at the margins. They are mere optimizations. Startups have to focus on the big experiments that lead to validated learning. The engines of growth framew
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