founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
Build the game you can win . The corollary to the above is that to succeed; you must build a game that you are singularly suited to play.
Mario Gabriele • 52 Tiny Venture Lessons
Instead of waiting for something to go wrong and then conducting a post-mortem, conduct a “pre-mortem” by imagining it went wrong then using the power of hindsight to deduce the likeliest reason it went wrong.
Gurwinder • 30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)
14 more ideas from Buffett and Munger I don’t want to forget:
1. The one thing that has surprised me all my life is how many people with high IQs do massively stupid things.
2. Berkshire was a small business at one time. It just takes time. It is the nature of compound interest. You can't... See more
“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors — so rare that you can almost discount the possibility... Inexperienced founders usually give competitors more credit than they deserve. Whether you succeed depends far more
... See moreI was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons:
Dan Rosetwitter.com
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
collinmathilde.medium.com
