founder's mentality

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

The great thing about achieving small things is that you know the big things are just as achievable, they just take more time.

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight • 8 highlights

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Figure out what you need—not just what the business needs

Gena Gorlin • Startup Lessons From Y Combinator’s Most Sought-after Executive Coach

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Andy Johns medium.com

Mo Shafieeha

VC-Backed Startups are Low Status

Michael Dempsey substack.com

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As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.

Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company

John Koenig • Edward Lando

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What people need most is confidence, not advice

(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)

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“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

― Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 10 – swissmiss

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Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles • 3 highlights

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