Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Amazon: How do we keep experimenting in superfast delivery?
September 19, 2013
-1 to 0 is when you figure out what you want to work on. It’s when you decide where to allocate the next 5-10 years of your life.
This may sound simple, but it can be overwhelming and isolating in practice. That period before SPC was not my first -1 to 0 experience. I spent the year after leaving Facebook to start Cove feeling like I was banging my... See more
This may sound simple, but it can be overwhelming and isolating in practice. That period before SPC was not my first -1 to 0 experience. I spent the year after leaving Facebook to start Cove feeling like I was banging my... See more
Ruchi Sanghvi • To Go 0 to 1, First Go -1 to 0
Why Are We Surprised That
Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
We think they can be hacked, but the only enduring moat is effort
Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
We think they can be hacked, but the only enduring moat is effort
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
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... See more
Pontus Karlssontwitter.comThe archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
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... 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... See more
Superhuman
A unique idea is powerful.
But truly original ideas — if there is such a thing — often struggle to gain traction with people who don’t have any reference point for them.
But truly original ideas — if there is such a thing — often struggle to gain traction with people who don’t have any reference point for them.