Startup Advice

The importance of getting your problem statement right first time founders often conflate the macro problem with the micro problem I see startups who say that their problem statements are; - we would need six globes to cover our emissions - under representation of X in Y -… Show more

Whether a recession is coming or not -- biggest thing is momentum. Momentum cures all. You’re going to get knocked down or discouraged. Inevitable. Key is to get back on it as soon as possible.

if the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gains traction, then the company will likely receive funding and a growth period will occur. Invariably, that means more people will join the team and the vision from the initial engineer needs to be shared.

Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more

If you are hyper-fixated on an ideal user, you will begin to think of your product as a single player game. You’ll develop tools that enable 1:1 interactions between that ideal user and your product.

But once you start thinking of your ICP as a node in a network – with a white hot center that enables you to spread to acquire new nodes of a network –... See more