founder's mentality

insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.

Naval Ravikant twitter.com

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The secret of any great project is to keep it moving, keep it from losing momentum.

-William Zeckendorf

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Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

Ben Horowitz a16z.com

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“We will only work with the best people, and will not hesitate to reach out to them.”

Waqas Ali • Part II: Getting Atoms right by getting the team right 👨🏻🎨 👩🏼🎨 👟 🎯 | Product Hunt

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keep your standards high.

James Dyson on solving problems:

“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”

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be different

Disruption Is Not a Strategy

Jerry Neumann reactionwheel.net

Mo Shafieeha

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth • 8 highlights

amazon.com

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As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.

Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company

John Koenig • Edward Lando

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the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale

Scott Belsky • The Wild Future of Commerce & The Rise of Conformative Software

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