founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
Our 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
Things don’t happen for a reason. But they do often happen because nobody has yet found a better way.
Jeff Huber • Find a Better Way
Figure out what you need—not just what the business needs
Gena Gorlin • Startup Lessons From Y Combinator’s Most Sought-after Executive Coach
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Scott Belskyamazon.com
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Alex Tan • #063 The Bravery Benefit
Brave thing I heard in a board meeting this week: “I don’t know if we have a good answer to that, yet.”
Admitting you *don’t know* the answer is hugely productive. We’re trying to find, together, the important things we don’t know the answers to
Striking how rarely it is said
sarah guo // convictiontwitter.comThere is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
What makes a successful businesswoman? Is it talent? Well, perhaps, although I've known many enormously successful people who were not-gifted in any outstanding way, not blessed with particular talent. Is it, then, intelligence? Certainly, intelligence helps, but it's not necessarily education or the kind of intellectual reasoning needed to
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