founder's mentality

insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck

Taking Care of Your Health While Running A Startup

In an interview with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs claimed that his greatest product was Apple the organization. I [Walter Isaacson] once asked Steve Jobs, you know, what product are you proudest of? And I thought he might say the iPod or the iPhone or the iPad, whatever, the Mac. He said, “You know, making a product is hard but making a team that... See more

The Best Product? A Great Team

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the best product? a great team.

“Nothing is done for business purposes. We create for the sake of what people will love...and we cater to both ends of the spectrum with the same intent, creativity, and purpose.”

Colossus • Life's Work Leaders - Colossus

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Ronnie Fieg, founder of Kith

Do Things that Don't Scale

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Ajinkya Wadhwa

Not every startup lends itself to such an intense customer focus: some new ventures are supply-led, not demand-inspired. Consumers could have never asked for an iPod until they actually saw one first.

Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste

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As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.

Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company

John Koenig • Edward Lando

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We were driven by creativity and we were unprofessional.– Skoging

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alex

One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.

Paul Graham twitter.com

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