Sarah Wong
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Sarah Wong
- We don’t need a second brain, we need a second heart. We need more soul.
from On many things. by jad
- The resonance of many profound creative pieces stems from a deep understanding of the human condition; and to get there the creative process necessitates a significant amount of trial and error.
from On many things.
- The illusion of knowledge: We can't learn things when we believe we already know, so this illusion of knowledge hinders our effort to discover. Recall the bull: beauty is in the simplest outcome (and often we’re stuck amidst the higher complexity phases, and so we actually don’t really know until we get to the simplest form of the bull or can expla... See more
from CEO diary entry: control, accountability, whiplash & anxiety
- I had heard many times that startup success is PACE OF LEARNING. But it took me a while to internalize that. A good way to maintain a strong pace of learning is to be in discovery mode
from CEO diary entry: control, accountability, whiplash & anxiety
- What part of the discovery process are we currently in? Are we diverging? Exploring different approaches, sketching 100 solutions, running lots of quick tests in different directions, etc. or are we converging: narrowing our focus, testing one thing out and maintaining constraints?
from CEO diary entry: control, accountability, whiplash & anxiety
- First Round Capital’s PMF framework consists of four levels: nascent, developing, strong, extreme
... See more- Level one: Nascent product-market fit. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company. The goal in this stage is to find three to five customers with a problem worth solving, engage with them, deliver a solution, and validate that solution. [examples: Vanta, L
from A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital) by Lenny Rachitsky
- First Round Capital’s PMF framework consists of four levels: nascent, developing, strong, extreme
1. Product-Market Fit - generating customer success consistently
2. Go-to-Market Fit - generating customer success consistently and scalably
3. Growth and Moat- pace and defensibility of scale
The Science of Scaling- Here’s what pain and pull look like in practice:
- People pay you money: Several people start to (or offer to) pay for your early product, ideally people you don’t have a direct connection to.
- Strong emotion: You’re hearing hatred for the incumbents (i.e. pain) or a deep and strong emotional reaction to your idea (i.e. pull).
- Cold inbound interest: Y
from How to validate your B2B startup idea by Lenny Rachitsky
