Startup
You don't find yourself through planning, you find yourself through acting. The path is found in the action.
Act and adapt, don't think and plan.
Act and adapt, don't think and plan.
An Open Letter to My Lost Younger Self
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Here are some tips to keep your startup lean:
- Focus on unit economics from day one. Understand your costs and revenue at a granular level.
- Wait to hit certain revenue milestones before hiring additional teammates.
- Explore alternative funding sources like revenue-based financing, crowdfunding, or bank loans.
- If you do need to raise VC money, approach it
the best way to avoid getting over-diluted
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Jay Gould - extreme focus on one thing is a superpower. Avoid multi tasking.
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Buffet and munger - schedule time to think and avoid multi tasking. Default to no and keep an open calendar. Get rid of envy. Someone will always be doing whatever you can think of better - who cares?
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Andrew Carnegie - Always know every dollar coming in and going out of your business to get ahead. Always invest in technology where your competitors aren’t. Be delighted to learn. Successful older generations love mentoring younger generations.
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Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Charlie Munger
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2. If your product isn't stellar (or striving to be), nothing else matters.
The days of scaling B2B SaaS and having a product that is fine, passable, or otherwise are over.
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Innovators Bias: When you want to build a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail
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