Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
“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
Don’t let a past venture cast a shadow on your next one.
Take Two: Eight Hard-Earned Lessons from Repeat Founders on Starting Over Again
For the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the... See more
Sari Azout • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
Founders need a new way of thinking, of building, of support that allows them to drive systematic, methodical and meaningful change.
sam altman: “honestly, i feel so bad about the advice i gave while running YC i’ve been thinking about deleting my entire blog” https://t.co/Ag94dLXUoL
morgan —twitter.comTo help you make it through the darkness, here’s a series of concrete actions you can take today to try to turn things around:
- Talk to more users (actually do it)
- Change your target audience/ICP
- Change your positioning/messaging/pitch
- Try a “kickstarter” to get the word out
- Find something that is working and pivot fully to that
- Give it a bit more time
- G
Lenny Rachitsky • What to Do if Your Product Isn’t Taking Off
