Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
A unique idea is powerful.
But truly original ideas — if there is such a thing — often struggle to gain traction with people who don’t have any reference point for them.
But truly original ideas — if there is such a thing — often struggle to gain traction with people who don’t have any reference point for them.
How To Figure Out If Your Idea Is Worth Spending Time On - For The Interested
Instead of doing broad but thin market research (e.g., customer surveys), focus on one person (or a small group) and go as deep as you can, learning everything about how your product fits into their broader lives. Or become your customer—spend a day, a month, or even a few years in the role you're trying to sell to before attempting to build a... See more
Casey Rosengren • The Power of Designing for a Single User
0/ The Chief of Staff role has reached a tipping point, from startups to trillion-dollar companies. I've talked to ~100 CEOs, from @NotionHQ, @Patreon, @blendlabsinc, @benchling and more, all asking same q:
How should I hire a chief of staff?
Here's what I tell them 🧵
nametwitter.com
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.
Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution
culture.entelect.co.za
If you are hyper-fixated on an ideal user, you will begin to think of your product as a single player game. You’ll develop tools that enable 1:1 interactions between that ideal user and your product.
But once you start thinking of your ICP as a node in a network – with a white hot center that enables you to spread to acquire new nodes of a network –... See more
But once you start thinking of your ICP as a node in a network – with a white hot center that enables you to spread to acquire new nodes of a network –... See more
James Currier • Finding the White Hot Center
The Community Canvas
community-canvas.org