how I’d build a startup
Sublime is not just a product – it's a journey, a community, a point of view on productivity and meaning.
Maria Tangarova • How to Make Users Go ‘Whoa’
The paid community concept is a reconfiguration of digital communities caused by the failure of big social networks to ensure deep vertical communities to thrive. It provides mainstream tools to niche communities. Maybe niche communities need niche products? One hypothesis could be that “bottom-up community-driven businesses” emerge when one
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“Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others… World-building means creating everything — not only making things inside the world but also the surrounding world itself — the language, style, rules, and architecture.” - Yancey Strickler
a vendor who does not consistently
and voluntarily quote its lowest price to our buyers will be permanently discontinued as a purchasing source for Costco
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
I think this also why the Apple culture of secret works so well. On your most important values there can be no second chances. If I let you do it this once, then you'll do it again
“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
Every story that matters is one that creates tension in its time. This doesn’t mean you have to be controversial or employ shock value. On the contrary, it means you have to make a statement about the world and force people to choose a side.
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
Principles of how to build a product
building products is all about tradeoffs. wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision. these were the principles we came up with at sublime