founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
Reaching your goals is not success if you compromise your values along the way.
Getting ahead shouldn't force you to leave people behind. No accomplishment is worth sacrificing kindness or integrity.
Ambition shapes what you achieve. Character is defined by how you achieve it.
nametwitter.comWe 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
startups are hard in the way life is hard, not in the way a marathon is hard, via Mills Baker
I know due diligence sucks
BUT
The investor who puts in the work to REALLY understand your company today
is the investor who will put in the work to REALLY support your company tomorrow.
Don't just grab the first $$ waved in front of... See more
Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸twitter.comFast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.
Colossus • Life's Work Leaders - Colossus
Ronnie Fieg, founder of Kith
Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception of it. An example I love that is not mentioned in the book: for years, few people bought “death insurance.” Then some genius changed the name to life insurance and grew the industry by many billions of dollars. After all, life insurance sounds so much better than death insurance.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #14
We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.