Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
End every meeting or conversation with the feeling and optimism you’d like to have at the start of your next conversation with the person. If you envision running into this person again and how you want that to go, it’ll undoubtedly influence how you navigate a present conversation — usually for the better
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
Designing products for a single person
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Baking soda —invented in the 1800s by British chemist Alfred Bird so that he could make bread for his wife, who was allergic to yeast.
- The typewriter —one of the
Casey Rosengren • The Power of Designing for a Single User
To find happiness in your career and life, embrace the philosophy of playing infinite games, where the goal is to keep playing rather than reach an end goal.
Lenny Rachitsky • Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Separate what you can control from what you can’t. It’s a small way to lift some weight off your shoulders. Take 15 minutes to create a list of everything that you’re worried about. Then label each one as a ‘within’ or a ‘beyond’ to see your sources of stress and anxiety laid bare
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
Engineer Wei Dai on reinventing yourself:
"Once you achieve high status, a part of your mind makes you lose interest in the thing that you achieved high status with in the first place. You might feel obligated to maintain an appearance of interest, and defend your position from time to time, but you no longer feel a burning need to know the truth.
One solution that might work (and I think has worked for me, although I didn't consciously choose it) is to periodically start over. Once you've achieved recognition in some area, and no longer have as much interest in it as you used to, go into a different community focused on a different topic, and start over from a low-status (or at least not very high status) position."
Your Product Is All There Is
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"This is worth repeating over and over again: your product is all there is. For the insiders in the know it is so easy to project the vision onto the product and they will always see it. But that is not how everyone else experiences it. Always keep this in mind."