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And what you see internally is what I'll say is razor-sharp focus on reducing cycle time and bias to action and how do we reduce cycle time. I think it's basically the core of it culturally to me is getting people to think about smaller units of time for decision making. It seems obvious but I think you really have to reinforce it culturally. So on... See more
Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
“It's just to remind people that we don't work in years, quarters, weeks, we work in days. Each day matters and so never put out something tomorrow that you know can get done today. And that bias to action really permeates not just in the product teams but everywhere.”
Sam Altman on why you shouldn’t track absolute user growth in the early days of a startup
“Nothing but a great product will save you; you can get everything else right and it still won’t work.”
He points out that almost all startup founders get the following wrong:
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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
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
James Currier • Finding the White Hot Center
I’ve come to learn through first-hand experience that monopolies often serve as the ideal competitor to take on. There are four main reasons why:
- Monopolies have already proven the industry is viable and lucrative
- Monopolies refuse to cannibalize their own dominance
- Monopolies have institutionalized their inefficiencies
- Monopolies have the most to los
Nir Zicherman • Don’t Be Scared to Take on a Monopoly
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product | Linear
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Maintain a sense of urgency to drive compound growth
One of the core things we’ve learned is that a sense of urgency leads to compounding growth .
To get the best long-term gains, you should always have a sense of urgency. The quicker you launch winning experiments, the quicker those changes impact your growth. Not only that, but these improvements ... See more
One of the core things we’ve learned is that a sense of urgency leads to compounding growth .
To get the best long-term gains, you should always have a sense of urgency. The quicker you launch winning experiments, the quicker those changes impact your growth. Not only that, but these improvements ... See more
Sean Colombo • The Secret to Duolingo’s Growth
We make purchases with emotion, but justify them with logic.
And that logic gets pieced together over time in what Eugene Schwartz called the Stages of Awareness.
He covered this in his classic book Breakthrough Advertising back in 1966.
He broke down prospect awareness into five distinct phases:
The Most Aware: They’re motivated to solve the problem p... See more
And that logic gets pieced together over time in what Eugene Schwartz called the Stages of Awareness.
He covered this in his classic book Breakthrough Advertising back in 1966.
He broke down prospect awareness into five distinct phases:
The Most Aware: They’re motivated to solve the problem p... See more
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Startup Handbook: Landing Page Copywriting
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