founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing meaningful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
Lesson #1: Great Products Expand Markets Taylor Swift moved to Nashville at 13 and went door-to-door to record labels. They all turned her down. Labels saw country music on the decline with young listeners, and didn't see a market for a teen country artist.
Rex Woodbury • Tweet
James Dyson on solving problems:
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
be different
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.