founder's mentality

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

“If you’re MSCHF, you don’t have to be so precious. There’s always more ideas, always the next project., and if you just have that commitment not to censor yourself and put things out there, it’s a more generative way of thinking.”

-Lauren Boyle, Made by MSCHF

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

Han Wang

twitter.com

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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

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from Craigslist cofounder Zach Fried

VC-Backed Startups are Low Status

Michael Dempsey substack.com

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Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck

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The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.

Sara Hooker • Tweet

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I just talked to a founder whose startup is growing "only" 25% a year and thus felt he needed to get bought. I explained that if he did, he'd need to find somewhere to invest the proceeds, and he'd be unlikely to find any investments that grew at 25% a year.

Paul Graham twitter.com

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