Entrepreneurship

Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company

Briggs Uhler

Use the scientific method

Objective
Hypothesis
Experiment design
Results
Learnings
Next steps

Everyone knows what works. Few do it after it stops being exciting.

-Shane Parrish

from Brain Food #638

Every choice is a brushstroke.
No single stroke creates a masterpiece, but eventually the portrait emerges.

-Shane Parrish

How you do anything is how you do everything

from Brain Food #632

When we fail, let it be because we tried to innovate, not emulate.

-Jeffrey Katzenberg, 1991 internal Disney memo

1991 internal Disney memo

When not if

Innovation is hard and fraught with failure. The upside is that when you
find a new, better way that no one else has done, you lead the world.
Risks must be taken. Failures endured. New ways found.

-Hiut Denim ‘No-Growth’ Model

The Illusion of Progress

Anthony Deden forumgeopolitica.com

Acquiring money isn’t progress in itself
Progress comes from building and improving material things—communication, health and wellbeing, nutrition, transportation safety and speed, etc.
Progress happened in the 1800s and 1900s, but stalled going into the 2000s

What If | Rivian

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What if?

Hiring well is the most important thing in the universe. Nothing else comes close.

from Valve’s employee handbook, cir 2012

Baserow - Open source no-code database

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