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The most important qualities in improving one's product thinking are:
đź‘€ curiosity
🔍 observation
Julie Zhuotwitter.combad people make bad founders.
paulgraham.com • Billionaires Build
So why would you create a 15-question survey and think anyone will answer it? I recommend 5 questions at the max. Make 2-3 of those open-ended.
Ramit Sethi • Your Move: The Underdog’s Guide to Building Your Business
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
2/ Gamified Learning Path
@Duolingo breaks its courses into bite-sized contents, only 2-3 mins per lesson.
Short attention + quick actions = retention.
Such a low barrier of entry to completion is key to incentivizing today's low-attention span audience to... See more
Felix Leetwitter.com
7/ No brainer subscription
As users get invested in Duo, they soon realize there are limitations but also, fear of losing their "streaks."
@duolingo is insanely smart about packaging this. They don't just monetize; they monetize with your most precious asset - save time.... See more
Takeaway: Increase your deal flow by building relationships with other active investors. The two best ways to build relationships are to:
1. Build a skill that is useful to startup founders, so that other investors benefit by introducing you to them
2. Share great deals with them
Lenny Rachitskytwitter.comTakeaway: Work on building your ability to get into hot deals, and don’t stress out about not being able to pick, especially early on.
Lenny Rachitskytwitter.comINFJs and ENFJs will find that they naturally take to the leadership role that being the head of a writing group provides. As an INFJ I was not at all sure I could handle leading a writing group every week for who knew how long (it turned out to be six years). I hated public speaking and didn’t much care for everyone’s eyes on me. Plus, I suffered
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