founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
Founder mentality - I'm too busy to hire. I can figure this out.
CEO mentality - I need to find the right person to figure this out.
Transition is always hard.
Michael Karnjanaprakorntwitter.comNot 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
“Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
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... See more“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To
“Instead of finding the product through discovery and iteration the goal is to reverse engineer the vision,” he explains. “If you take an incremental, discovery-led approach, then you might find yourself with product-market fit in a local maximum, building a company that you don’t want to lead.”
Matt Walton • Case study: Sana's vision
work from the vision backwards