Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
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?
- If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions
The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes
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.com
chatgpt has no social features or built-in sharing, you have to sign up before you can use it, no inherent viral loop, etc.
seriously questioning the years of advice i gave to startups 🙃
Sam Altmantwitter.comGenerally, teams think about switching costs as the amount of time and money needed to install one solution and remove another. But true switching costs are much more than that: they include the politics, emotions, career ambitions, esoteric business processes, competing priorities, and sheer laziness that all favor the existing solution. Those... See more
Jake Fuentes • Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
Simply put, an ICP must be a single market segment :a group of people for whom the value of solving a problem is roughly the same, and who can be reached in roughly the same way. “People who use Excel” is not a market segment, because it says nothing about either the value of their problem or how to reach them. “Marketers who use Excel to build... See more