Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
sam altman: “honestly, i feel so bad about the advice i gave while running YC i’ve been thinking about deleting my entire blog” https://t.co/Ag94dLXUoL
morgan —twitter.combe brave, be bold, and learn to say “no” to customers.
Do it in the right way, calmly and in direct conversation, and explain why the no is necessary. But say no and stick to it.
Your business will thank you for it.
Do it in the right way, calmly and in direct conversation, and explain why the no is necessary. But say no and stick to it.
Your business will thank you for it.
Jan Cavelle • 3 Ways ‘Scope Creep’ Can Ruin Your Startup
I was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons:
Dan Rosetwitter.com
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