how I’d build a startup
There is likely something that your user wants more than just a solution.
Searching for identity can feel like grabbing at clouds. Just when you think you’re holding the truth, it slips through your fingers.
That’s because truly understanding someone else’s identity is an out-of-body kind of experience. It’s one thing to see it on paper. It’s another thing to feel it your bones.
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This isn’t to say that proof of work is bad. In fact, coming up with a constraint that unlocks the creativity of so many people is exactly how Status as a Service businesses achieve product-market fit. Constraints force the type of compression that often begets artistic elegance, and forcing creatives to grapple with a constraint can foster the
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Andrew from tiny talked about this in this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMInAfhIuTQ
I let you do it this one time you'll do it again the contract with the customer which is very low prices must not be broken
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Costco gets this incredible deal better deal than they normally get when they buy 2 million pairs of designer jeans they wind up getting them for $22 so $10 less than Costco has sold the jeans for in the past so they offer this huge markup you could essentially mark it up another 50% and you'd still be half the cost of most other retailers so one of Costco's buyers recommends taking a higher gross margin than usual more than the normal 14% markup since no one would know so he says that the Jim Sagle
Return to first principles and act quickly on your new conclusions.
It’s very easy to take the world as it is, as opposed to envisioning it as you want it to be. For example, 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
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Peter Thiel
We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.