1/ there is this sense when you are young that your accomplishments need to be a list of things that seem impressive to others. A list of several items you did. This isn't actually right, so here is another suggestion.↗

1/ As a founder you should spend all of your time on the unique things you can do which no other human on the planet can do. Corollary: You should spend almost no time doing stuff which is already well understood by someone else.↗

No one expects a tennis player to become the next Serena without coaching. Why would the next great CEO be any different? Get an executive coach.↗

💬 I often get Q’s like these: How did you get your first customers for WIP? How did you grow BetaList’s traffic? Etc. Makers are looking to reverse-engineer success. I see it everywhere. I don’t think it works that way and the answers to those questions are mostly useless. 💥↗

1/ Was at a dinner recently with five VCs. All great folks, smart, thoughtful investors. We got to talking about Halo Top and what drove its growth.↗

@ItsHogg @levelsio @ProductHunt @sarah__jackson @jsfiddle Here is a slightly tweaked version of @levelsio that actually generates a downloadable gif 🎉 insert your emojis and then right click on the image 'save image as' 👍 jsfiddle. net/moritzkobrna/oxwjdc2m/↗

I’ve gotten asked a lot about YC interviews in the last week. Here are some tips:↗

All of these brilliant people (@nntaleb @naval @nickkokonas) talk about the importance of doing things or investing in things with “asymmetric risk” (huge upside, limited downside). But I’ve never seen a list of what those things might be. Let’s create one. I’ll start...↗

Lambda School but for __________ instead of programming↗

@eriktorenberg @jrdngonen @dksf @CaseyNeistat @368 YC took off in part because of the lack of education and a playbook for starting a company and raising money. I’m not sure YC would be a fraction of what it is today if it started in 2018. So, which industries today have a simil…↗

The cheat codes for raising angel funding...↗

When I entered VC, I thought founders would want my help with: - algorithms - sw architecture - advice on leveraging data 😂 Here's what they usually want: - recruiting help - best practices/"what've you seen in this situation?" - someone who believes in them - emotional support↗

1/ What drives decisions for (bad) VCs. This is going to be fun.↗

📖 Got about 15 chapters done for Refactoring UI so far, things are coming along awesome! Will be sending out another free preview this week to anyone subscribed for updates: refactoringui.com/book/↗

@boyney123 @waldobroodryk developereconomics.com/reports/global… — 11 million software professionals out of 7.5 billion people, so significantly less than one quarter of one percent of the world.↗

I'm interested in partnering in a small product design/development studio. Think what MetaLab was 5-10 years ago. If you look like this, get in touch: • Based in Canada or another low cost location • Design + Development • Super talented 3-15 pers team↗

The broadcasting of @LambdaSchool's demoday via @zoom_us is interesting There is a certain appeal to watching something together with other people. Eg - I instantly checked who i know by name - People cheer (muted) after a demo Imho there is a media startup hidden in here…↗

Anyone else think this is a good idea? Who would you want to hear/learn from?↗

1/ A few years ago a ton of “Uber for X” startups got funded, but very few of them - maybe none? - worked out. It sounds good but ultimately most failed on the supply side. Let’s explore why.↗

Here goes my second book thread about my learnings of the wonderful book "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight, Founder of @Nike This habit might have not been possible if it wasn't for @naval & @Douglas9162↗

✈️🤔 What are your favorite traveling tips?↗

AMA in this thread (for the next 15 minutes).↗

Best landing page you've ever seen, GO!↗

Do you work remote? Have a unique "office" space? Share a picture of where you work—I want to talk to you about something.↗

Two concepts worth knowing if you work on startups or develop products in general ⚙️ - Job to be done - Owning a moment (Please RT if useful - unsure what kind of content is helpful to others 🙏 - i usually tell this everyone who asks me for product advice)↗

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I've been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I've seen.↗

Am moderating a panel on incubators today at a conference. Am curious: what are the biggest companies that come to mind that have come out of vc incubators?↗

1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? After many years, we ended up w/ 6,000+ paying customers. It was a grind to get there.😩 Here's what I Iearned...↗

Habits that have a high rate of return in life: - sleep 8+ hours each day - lift weights 3x week - go for a walk each day - save at least 10 percent of your income - read every day - drink more water and less of everything else - leave your phone in another room while you work↗

1/ The first 18 months of starting a company is often life or death. I must've made 5 different companies that each failed within 9 mo. 😭 Each time the company failed I figured out what I could do better. Eventually startup #6 got to $40K/mo by month 18. Here’s what I learned...↗