founder's mentality
insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck
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founder's mentality
Hardest part about startups is maintaining that childlike excitement that first got you started
Put a bag of cookies in the break room and it might sit for days.
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all... See more
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all... See more
Open The Cookies, Seth Godin
“Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
251 / “Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
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What makes a successful businesswoman? Is it talent? Well, perhaps, although I've known many enormously successful people who were not-gifted in any outstanding way, not blessed with particular talent. Is it, then, intelligence? Certainly, intelligence helps, but it's not necessarily education or the kind of intellectual reasoning needed to
... See moreI don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
the strategy was to do the work
Sari • Founder Opportunity Assessment
docs.google.comgreat questionnaire from David Sherry
The secret of any great project is to keep it moving, keep it from losing momentum.
-William Zeckendorf