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
- Momentum is a moat . As an optimistic entrepreneur, chief product officer focused on innovation, and especially as a leader of M&A for years, this is a lesson I have learned the hard way more times than I care to admit. When a product has escape velocity, it doesn’t even need to be the best product on the market to continue winning. This pains me
Scott Belsky • Reprogramming Humanity’s Primal Instincts & What We Learn From A Future “History of Tech” Class
Coralus, Formerly SheEO
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Don’t get fooled by the insane outliers. It’s a long, slow road. But if you can stomach the wait, the embarrassment, and the frustration, you just might make it.
Nat Eliason • It's Still a Long Game
“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 moreMarc Andreessen, who wrote: “The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”
Gena Gorlin • How Builders Think
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.