Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating:
- someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold
- someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster
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The truth is that if we stop doing chores, we have to do real work instead. The things that aren’t repeatable or proven. The things that are emotionally difficult, creatively challenging or simply requiring exploration and guts to pursue. If we succeed at this work, there will be plenty of money to pay to get the chores done.
Doing chores cheerfully and with skill is a fine hobby. But it might not be what you need to do right now.
Collapse the talent stack every chance you get . As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also a designer, when the designer... See more
Scott Belsky • Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future
Reaching the frontier of a field, you will stumble upon something that hasn’t been solved yet, which will make all the difference. Society will reward you for offering something it wants but hasn’t been able to obtain so far.
The way to that point is through trial and error, iterating, and uncovering different truths.
The way to that point is through trial and error, iterating, and uncovering different truths.
Daniel Rizea • Top 5 Learnings After Mentoring 100 Startups
Amazon: How do we keep experimenting in superfast delivery?
September 19, 2013
Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
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Many founders, out of their fear of things slowing down, are missing the opportunities that [slowing down] affords them.
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC