Startup Advice

What Startups Are Really Like

What Kind of Company Do You Want to Build?

To 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

Lenny Rachitsky • What to Do if Your Product Isn’t Taking Off

Britt Gage

🐝Survival Tips for Team Leaders: Reorg Edition

Adam Harmetz blog.mindthebeet.com

Tom So

The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier

James Currier nfx.com

Jordan Bester

Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

Exploring the problem space: a guide to building the right solution

culture.entelect.co.za

Jay Matthews

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.com

sari

There are some SaaS Founders that are just doomed to fail. And it's not because startups have a high failure rate. It's also not because they lack talent. It's because they just refuse to embrace Go-To-Market and are too much in love with building product.

TK Kader twitter.com

sari