Startups
Even among the talented who choose a path of building, most take safe, incremental bets — another SaaS company, another turnkey consumer startup, another digital Beanie Baby. Such pursuits not only fail to push the world forward, but pose a cost in opportunity. There are important challenges facing humanity that no one is working on, including... See more
Trae Stephens • Choose Good Quests - Founders Fund
Choose pursuits that push the world forward.
“We’re seeking to make a change in part of the world. How do we find the right people and tell them the right (true) story that helps them get to where they’re going–and that they’ll tell to their peers?”
Seth's Blog • The Right Marketing Question
The better the investor, the simpler the questions. When I started, I was obsessed with jargon, complex questions and spreadsheets. Now I ask things like “what does it do?”, “why do people buy it?”, and “why are you selling?”. And I never do more math than I can fit on a napkin.
Jeremy Giffontwitter.comWhen you're building something from scratch, you don't have the luxury of waiting for perfect conditions. And you don’t need perfect conditions anyway. You don't get a marketing team or a design budget or someone handing you a playbook on day one of building your own business. You get the equivalent of notebook paper and tape. And the question is... See more
Being a purple squirrel. | Justin Welsh
In most industries, competition is a knife fight—it’s fast and dirty. In contrast, B2B SaaS is a chess match, cerebral and drawn out. And it’s because rather than merely guessing about what their foes will do, founders can forecast with a spooky level of certainty what is going to happen.