Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
The result of this garage-centered approach to entrepreneurship was a business paradigm that looks liked this:
In the above model, notice how the product is at the center of the company, and all the work and effort of building the actual business is focused on marketing the product.
In the above model, notice how the product is at the center of the company, and all the work and effort of building the actual business is focused on marketing the product.
Aaron Dinin • The “Garage Startup” Is Officially Dead
Building startups is not a particularly glamorous thing in spite of how the media makes it look. A lot of it is just doing sales or doing customer support hundreds of thousands of times over and over again and being really committed to becoming exceptional at it.
The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier
i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen https://t.co/mz5auDBkKl
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.
nametwitter.comif the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gains traction, then the company will likely receive funding and a growth period will occur. Invariably, that means more people will join the team and the vision from the initial engineer needs to be shared.
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning... See more
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning... See more
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
You can’t be a hoarder of power within an organization. Once you get to a point where you feel like something is ready for lots of scale, get comfortable with letting it go so you can move on to the next building challenge.
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
Founders that step away grow their startup; find a team to trust and then share the power to increase your scaling velocity.
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