how I’d build a startup
Current AI creative tools are made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.
We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.
We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.
Tools can be analogized to maps or to turn-by-turn navigation
I want to build a map for people not a sat nav
If your startup made any progress this week it was a good week.
Just do that for years and you’ll eventually be an overnight success.
One of the most important skills to learn as a founder is how to use Mixpanel—especially with a very small sample size. This is not something you can delegate because only you will be obsessed enough to make sure your insights are valid.
Almost everyday I see founders get deluded into thinking:
A. They have an onboarding problem—that was actually... See more
Easy to find an idea
Transformational ideas for software—the ones that could become huge businesses and change the world—are rare and hard to spot. Even when they do work out, they often take tremendous effort and require an appetite for risk.
In contrast, incremental improvements to existing software are far easier to find . If you’re opinionated a... See more
Transformational ideas for software—the ones that could become huge businesses and change the world—are rare and hard to spot. Even when they do work out, they often take tremendous effort and require an appetite for risk.
In contrast, incremental improvements to existing software are far easier to find . If you’re opinionated a... See more
For your next side project, make a browser extension
You have to have optimism. You have to have energy. You have to create positive energy. - Jeff Bezos
You really want to do everything with quality as that is where the satisfaction and peace is." – Nick Sleep
Inspired by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Cultures that care about the little things all the time are very hard to create.” And according to Jeff Bezos “Almost impossible to create if not put in place at the firms genesis”
Nick Sleep
when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive to imagine that you were working from a clean slate and design the feature from scratch. In either case, the right approach is almost always to re-use the existing codebase in y... See more
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Peter Thiel advice to Joe Lonsdale