how I’d build a startup

3. Say NO more often:

Early on saying yes is what leads to small wins and momentum. Casting a wide net early on can be a great strategy.

As you get more successful guard your time and stay focused. Scope creep is a real thing with all business. Don’t be afraid to turn away customers to stay focused.

There will be many many customers who reach out to y... See more

Nick Huber

The Startup Designer

Paul Stamatiou paulstamatiou.com

ZINE - Hardware Renaissance

zora.co

Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

Jason Cohen longform.asmartbear.com

This industry spent the last 20 years proving that we know how to assault the senses to hijack attention, install addiction, etc. Software built in this style will continue because there’s a proven market for it… but I don’t think it’ll define the next 20 years

Sean X

x.com

“Do not divide your attention. Focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort. At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost versus

Brand is an organising belief. When you have a strong organising belief, you’ve made the only decision you’ve needed to make. Because everything gets filtered through that belief.

What do stand for? What do we need to do here?

AI is not software. You can think of it as digital employees. Once you do that, the possibilites of what you can do become a lot more real.

Andrew from tiny talked about this in this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMInAfhIuTQ

In order to know how to speak to your user, you have to first understand how they speak to themselves when no one else is listening.

Jasmine Bina