founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
highlights from Danny Meyer’s autobiography via David Senra:
1. I had an uncontainable drive to win.
2. The inception of Shake Shack actually began with a humble hot dog cart. Small as the project was, I took this cart quite seriously. I was asking myself, "Who ever wrote that rule that you can't push the envelopes of excellence and hospitality for
... See moreFounders are taught to possess enough faith to will whatever they’re working on into existence but are rarely reminded to worship anything but themself. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the point that they often find it hard not to confuse themselves for God — and we all know how that ends.
Molly Mielke • morals
a fundamental tension with being a founder
Ditch the term MVP and use SLC (Simple, Lovable, Complete) .
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
Lesson #1: Great Products Expand Markets Taylor Swift moved to Nashville at 13 and went door-to-door to record labels. They all turned her down. Labels saw country music on the decline with young listeners, and didn't see a market for a teen country artist.
Rex Woodbury • Tweet
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz • 12 highlights
amazon.com
We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon: yes, legs and lungs hurt, but that’s normal and appropriate, and we know the route, the distance, and that there’s a finish line. This is a kind of difficulty we can contend with without losing... See more
Chris Best • Principles and pragmatism
startups are hard in the way life is hard, not in the way a marathon is hard, via Mills Baker