Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
How can we better align incentives between founders and funders, and enable more people to build enduring companies with patience, care, and preservation at the center?
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
If you notice something at your company below standards and don't fix it or make sure someone else does, you have set a new standard.
Complaining about it does not count as fixing it.
If someone gets upset/tells you to stay in your lane, they've set an even worse new standard.
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Disruption, as theorized by Clayton Christensen in the early 1990s, is a process by which a startup offers a lower-cost product that performs worse along standard dimensions of performance for a small subset of customers outside of the mainstream. The product gets adoption, though, because it performs better on a new dimension of performance that... See more
Can a Startup Kill ChatGPT?
Don’t confuse people rooting for you with market signal
On some level, all founders suffer from “happy ears”—the chronic confirmation bias pervading conversations with customers, partners, team members, and investors. We tend to have irrational levels of confidence anyway, but that gets compounded when we mistake support for market signal. Most... See more
On some level, all founders suffer from “happy ears”—the chronic confirmation bias pervading conversations with customers, partners, team members, and investors. We tend to have irrational levels of confidence anyway, but that gets compounded when we mistake support for market signal. Most... See more
Jake Fuentes • Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
