founder's mentality

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

We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon: yes, legs and lungs hurt, but that’s normal and appropriate, and we know the route, the distance, and that there’s a finish line. This is a kind of difficulty we can contend with without losing... See more

Chris Best • Principles and pragmatism

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startups are hard in the way life is hard, not in the way a marathon is hard, via Mills Baker

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Why so many people with a startup idea never ship https://t.co/lBtmsM2xlj

Founder mentality - I'm too busy to hire. I can figure this out. CEO mentality - I need to find the right person to figure this out. Transition is always hard.

Michael Karnjanaprakorn twitter.com

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Obvious Startup Advice

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might take 6 more months, might take 2 years. it doesn’t matter. we’re locked in until this becomes real. there’s no quitting, no shortcuts, no backing out. every single day we get closer. we’re gonna make this happen no matter what, because that’s the only option. lock in

josh x.com

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“It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.”

― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

Disgrace Quotes by J.M. Coetzee

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