founder's mentality

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

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First Versions

firstversions.com

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a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.

What Kind of Company Do You Want to Build?

Nathan Baschez every.to

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the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the glory of invention

via Edwin Land

Check your Pulse #49

Sari Azout sariazout.substack.com

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Love motivates people to work through challenges that might otherwise lead them to give up. If those founders had focused on building for a customer they genuinely loved, they would have been more likely to persevere and create something that addressed a deep need. If they were to find a customer they loved serving, I would invest in them again.

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Julian Weisser • Founders and Customers: Love and Service

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nice - on the importance of customer obsession and falling in love with a customer, not a product.

Cultivate what Adam terms a “challenge network,” a cohort of people you can rely on to give you unvarnished feedback

If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions

The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

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Disruption Is Not a Strategy

Jerry Neumann reactionwheel.net

Mo Shafieeha