Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
The success myth is a trap entrepreneurs fall into where they assume success will make their lives easier. But that’s not actually how success works in entrepreneurship. As you progress further into your entrepreneurial venture, the success and growth you achieve is going to lead to lots of challenges you weren’t expecting.
Are You Prepared to Pay the Real Price of Startup Success?
How can we better align incentives between founders and funders, and enable more people to build enduring companies with patience, care, and preservation at the center?
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
Don't build features for the sake of building 'something.' Build features to unlock something for your users. Make sure they value it. Otherwise, you're wasting your time building trash.
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- To create a product that grows organically, you need to “surprise and delight” your customers. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectations, you have to surpass them. And doing that takes time. (h/t Scott Belsky)
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We’re driven by an insatiable desire to bring our ideas to life, to make a difference in the world, and to make our own paths to success. As creators, as founders — that’s who we are.
We pour our hearts, souls, and resources into our ideas, fuelled by a shaking, frequently fucking terrified but always determined belief in our abilities and the... See more
We pour our hearts, souls, and resources into our ideas, fuelled by a shaking, frequently fucking terrified but always determined belief in our abilities and the... See more
Be Prepared to Lose Everything.
