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
Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
“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 moreJames Dyson on solving problems:
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
be different
Colossus • Life's Work Leaders - Colossus
Ronnie Fieg, founder of Kith
Jerry Seinfeld started performing stand-up comedy in 1976. Since then and to this day, every day he sits with a yellow legal pad and writes jokes. Given that he’s been honing his craft for 47 years, he was asked, “How do you know a joke is going to work on stage?” Seinfeld said, "You don’t." “You just trust yourself?” the interviewer asked. “No you... See more
on resilience
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
