how I’d build a startup
f you want to be successful and we do then you have to be willing to be misunderstood okay come on this has been a main theme the last month and do things that do not seem sensible to most people for example if you the employees come into the office in the morning thinking how are you going to beat number one number two and number three in the
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This is how I would build a startup
It's something we shouldn't even be thinking about at Workflow
What happens when you succeed? If you feel like you’re focusing more on growth than creating great work, it might be time to figure out a new vision for the future.
George Kedenburg III • The Cost of Craft
Look for the story that needs changing and then create a new reality where that story can live. Give your users new proof, new evidence, new rules. Give them a new architecture to build their stories on top of.
Give them all of the props and staging they need in order to step inside the new narrative.
Give them all of the props and staging they need in order to step inside the new narrative.
Jasmine Bina, Concept Bureau
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... 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... See more
For your next side project, make a browser extension
Look for how your brand can connect to more than just one part of someone’s life. There is a story to be told that is much bigger than your product.
Make the connection and go deeper into your consumer’s world.
Culture is the deepest moat one can create.
Soleio from indie interview
But time and scale and riches and glories later. We now see what I generally call “meta-startups”
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
Reggie James • Tweet
Repeat the mission over and over.
Repeat the yearly goals over and over.
Repeat the quarterly goals over and over.
Say it so many times, the team tells you to stop saying it and then keep saying it. It needs to become like a reflex.
- Lesson learnt after Dao asked me what our goals were and I didn’t know the details.