the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
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the start of an idea
Great strategy
- starts with a vision and a challenge . What is your purpose? What problem are you trying to solve?
- is honest about the current state of your business and market - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- is a hypothesis on where you will play and how you will win. Your business and product don’t exist in a vacuum - your
Your strategy (probably) sucks
When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Once you've found something you're excessively interested in, the next step is to learn enough about it to get you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso