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
“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”
—Lynda Barry • Keep your overhead low
build things you want for yourself vs. just thinking about traditional ‘factory’ VC
startups:
build it and nobody will come until you figure out distribution which is way harder
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More heads down, less looking around.
You only compete with one thing
I love this re-framing of competition by Jason Fried: “When it comes to business, I've always preferred the term "alternative" to "competitor" when addressing other options in the market.”
Hardest part about startups is maintaining that childlike excitement that first got you started