Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Steve Jobs gave one of his best interviews about building products back in 1995.
Anyone who wants to craft amazing products should watch it.
Here are 9 quotes from Jobs that really resonated with me:
ON SMALL TEAMS
Impressive things accomplished by small teams:
Impressive things accomplished by small teams:
- Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time.
- Mojang (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 million
sari azout • the power of a good prompt, small teams, extreme questions to trigger ideas, working online/living offline
The archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
Constraints breed creativity.
By running your startup with the stated goal of being cashflow positive, you force your team to take ownership of every dollar just a bit more and consider outside-the-box solutions earlier. It also can influence team members to be willing to go beyond their stated areas of ownership to get things done.
By running your startup with the stated goal of being cashflow positive, you force your team to take ownership of every dollar just a bit more and consider outside-the-box solutions earlier. It also can influence team members to be willing to go beyond their stated areas of ownership to get things done.
How Gamma Acquired 10 Million Users in 9 Months
“Working on a startup is like riding a broken bicycle. You have to both ride and fix it at the same time.”
How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
I’ve come to learn through first-hand experience that monopolies often serve as the ideal competitor to take on. There are four main reasons why:
- Monopolies have already proven the industry is viable and lucrative
- Monopolies refuse to cannibalize their own dominance
- Monopolies have institutionalized their inefficiencies
- Monopolies have the most to
