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In startups, if you take your foot off the pedal, the default mode is reverse, not neutral.
domm
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- the hardest truth about startups is that working hard doesnt guarantee success on its own
- in sales and marketing, your goal is to build excitement not explain a feature
- people who work in startups: you dont have to fix every problem a lot of speed comes from knowing what to ignore
- 100m people with an idea 1m people with a landing page 100k startups with an mvp 25k startups with customers/users 10k startups with revenue sure its ‘possible’ to raise money with just an idea, but the further you get the less competition you have
- good things come to those who build startups
- hire people so good that you dont have to follow up to check if things got done
- This morning got a cold DM from a company with tens of billions in revenue, about @fast checkout; met with them this afternoon. Met my cofounder on Twitter - @abarrallen Hired executives and team members from twitter. Met investors here. Can't believe this website is free.
- Best startup advice you have received?
- you dont need any permission to change jobs, start a newsletter or a podcast, start a hobby, or open source project, or startup you can do it quietly, or build in public and tell the world pick any path you like and enjoy the experience
- in physics force = mass * acceleration in startups force = team * speed
- The hardest part of building a startup is?
- who is planning on launching a new startup in 2022?
- a lot of people want to start their own companies but dont know what to work on what are your best startup ideas you want to see built?