Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Why should every potential business need to build all 3 parts of this stack when their core innovation or value add comes primarily from one or two?
Danny Zuckerman • Data composability: what it is + why it matters
This experience isn’t so different for software businesses. Two excitable cofounders work on an app, submit it to Product Hunt, and see thousands of sign-ups on the first day. A few months later, no one is using it, and they’re on to a new project.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
YOUR STARTUP IS NOT YOUR HORCRUX
A list of 40+ guidelines I've learned about being a founder, while serving as an (imperfect) 2-time founder & CEO, early-employee-COO, advisor, and investor.
CURATE YOUR TRIBE
“Founder-friendly” often means “we’ll do whatever it takes to win a deal, including offering excessively generous terms to the company and f... See more
Business Breakdowns @bizbreakdowns
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Brian Curran
@brc
List of revealing questions
(h/t People Watching newsletter) https://t.co/jHXXmY5UNb
Trying to do client work AND build a startup or Big Project. Have patience. Remember that freelancing and consulting isn’t a treadmill, it’s a path to cash and calendar freedom. Equity and building comes later. Send an invoice first.
Tom Critchlow • A Map for Indie Living
In an April 24, 2011 TechCrunch article, “What Should You Do With Your Crappy Little Service Business?”2 Mark Suster (@msuster), a two-time entrepreneur and venture capitalist at GRP Partners, articulated why service businesses should not become product businesses.
Paul Roetzer • The Marketing Agency Blueprint
I had the three Ws of the business figured out: Who: Found an audience of potential customers? People on Reddit. What: Worked backwards to find a problem they wanted solved? Imgur Pro at a discount. Where: Time for me to flex the Ask muscle and pitch some Redditors? Game on!