On building of All Trades
When there’s high fit on a team, there’s high trust, and with that trust comes the ability to make decisions quickly.
Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success
There’s wisdom to not talking about our goals. See Derek Sivers TED Talk. It could make you feel closer to your achievement than you are. But a spoken goal, the big one you feel in your bones, the one you’re afraid to say out loud because to not achieve it would be crushing. That takes courage. We reward courage by rooting for you. Some people call... See more
Kyle Thiermann • How can people root for you?
I’m not one to build in public, but there’s utility in making sure it’s known how people can root for you.
The median bootstrapped B2B SaaS company currently spends around 90% of its annual recurring revenue on costs—25% on go-to-market strategy and execution, 24% on research and development, 15% on administrative and miscellaneous expenses, 13% on website hosting and implementation, and 10% on customer retention. Each of these categories of cost is now... See more
Will Manidis • Asset-light Software Businesses: The New Paradigm for Startups
On the evolving spend of startups
To find happiness in your career and life, embrace the philosophy of playing infinite games, where the goal is to keep playing rather than reach an end goal.
Lenny Rachitsky • Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
I wish when I was at my previous startups I had focused more on building and less on winning. Sure, I may not have done exactly what I had thought I wanted, but finding ways to love the process would’ve allowed for better outcomes anyway. What we want is such an abstract idea, built on a foundation of shifting sand, that it is pointless to try to p... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Futility of Utility
Generalists, with their diverse skills, adaptability, and ethical awareness, are at the vanguard of this new epoch. They aren’t just visionaries but also implementers, merging AI-generated efficiency with human creativity and ethical discernment.
Adhithya • The rise of generalists in the AI era
Your business exists in the context of a marketplace, but also in the context of your lived experience.
Defaulting to the norms of your industry will shape your business to be similar to the rest, where the best entrepreneurs zero-in on their self expression. Do you have an eye for good design? Inject design into a tasteless industry. Do you have a ... See more
Defaulting to the norms of your industry will shape your business to be similar to the rest, where the best entrepreneurs zero-in on their self expression. Do you have an eye for good design? Inject design into a tasteless industry. Do you have a ... See more
Sari Az • Check your Pulse #49
Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest...The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest.
