how I’d build a startup
You have to have optimism. You have to have energy. You have to create positive energy. - Jeff Bezos
Are you building a practice or a cathedral?
- Yancey Strickler
the founder is the guardian of the company's Soul
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Tech bros are obsessing over taste because they’ve realised it’s the only thing that matters
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.
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Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels to talk with you. Customize, make it bespoke, put yourself into it instead of doing what you feel you should. This has all kinds of benefits (reducing burn out for instance) but especially helps with... See more
Be an idea expander
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
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 typ
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