founder's mentality

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

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We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.

Bent Flyvbjerg • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

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What YC taught me about how startups fail https://t.co/Rh3hvOPbOr

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz • 12 highlights

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Cover of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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Go all in on where you think the future is, regardless of where it currently is. Mute the world then build your own world.

Tom Osman • Tweet

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“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

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“An endeavor achieved without delay, wrong turnings, occasional blank walls and a vein of self-doubt running through all, leading eventually to some degree of heart-break is a thing of the moment, a mere bagatelle, and often neither use nor ornament. It will be scanned for a moment and put aside. What is worthwhile carries the struggle of the maker

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The best founders I know listen to and read EVERYONE, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind

Joe Rogan • #1309 - Naval Ravikant

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Hardest part about startups is maintaining that childlike excitement that first got you started

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