founder's mentality
insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck
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founder's mentality
Success is never a straight line. Walt Disney is decades into his career. An undisputed success. Yet depressed. Life is all peaks and valleys - for everyone.
The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing meaningful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
Best marketing strategy ever! Steve Jobs Think different / Crazy ones speech (with real subtitles)
Steve Jobsyoutube.com
An entrepreneur is a broker between ideas and resources.
More heads down, less looking around.
You only compete with one thing
I love this re-framing of competition by Jason Fried: “When it comes to business, I've always preferred the term "alternative" to "competitor" when addressing other options in the market.”
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
the strategy was to do the work
The best founders I know listen to and read EVERYONE, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind
Joe Rogan • #1309 - Naval Ravikant
What people need most is confidence, not advice
(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)
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 Grahamtwitter.com