Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Amazon: How do we keep experimenting in superfast delivery?
September 19, 2013
Don't build features for the sake of building 'something.' Build features to unlock something for your users. Make sure they value it. Otherwise, you're wasting your time building trash.
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The hardest transition as a founder is going from working directly on the product to not. There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
Five Lies That Can Ruin Your Life
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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
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."
“The only way to be a painter is to make paintings. That means not doing other stuff.”