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
startups:
build it and nobody will come until you figure out distribution which is way harder
anu ☻twitter.comOur tagline is Founders are artists, not assets. If I had to summarize my core belief, it’s that the best founders, especially in the early days, look more like artists creating a fundamentally new, creative project. They don’t resemble business executives chasing an arbitrage opportunity.
Elan Miller • In the Asylum with Nick Chirls
The best tech companies drive strategy through product. This is why founders and CEOs tend to be product leaders, and product / design / engineering is more important than ops / marketing / finance. Here’s what this looked like for me as a business leader at Amzn and Facebook:
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Insights from Brian Chesky (founder of Airbnb) podcast with Lenny Rachitsky:
A lot of companies don't do product marketing, they do brand marketing, which are ads about the app, or they do performance marketing, but they're never really educating people about new things they're making and shipping. And because no one's marketing new things that are
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.