How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
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
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.
1/ I believe there are things that CEOs almost universally feel, but are afraid to talk about, making this journey as a CEO lonelier and less healthy. I recently had an amazing dialogue with some other CEOs about these topics. I wanted to broaden the conversation publicly.
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...
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...
AMA in this thread (for the next 15 minutes).
1/ A few weeks back I asked folks for suggestions on the best writing on product management. I promised to compile & share back everything I've found, so here goes:
Do you work remote? Have a unique "office" space? Share a picture of where you work—I want to talk to you about something. https://t.co/ElLI44HOmn
Stumbled across the Series A pitch deck I presented to @a16z back in 2014. Nostalgic. https://t.co/5hh930vnve
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)
On my mind re: scooters: -near-immediate product-market fit -basically no entry barrier -founders most anywhere can spin up their local version right now -BUT, solving big last-mile pain point, lots of $ & consumer interaction, relatively quick payback period
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?
Best landing page you've ever seen, GO!
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Ranked by when the bookmark was saved during this London date range. Save rate means public X bookmarks divided by views, with a 10k-view minimum. Metrics are X's latest public counts; older items can be stale once they leave the recent-bookmarks sync window.