The Dumb Idea Paradox. Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. Thread 👇
Here’s how to build a company (or really do anything challenging) while being happy: 1/ Realize that if you achieve your goal, you actually won’t be any happier than you are right now. This is easy to say but hard to do. Set a reminder to meditate on this every day.
1/ If you don’t have product-market fit, your startup is fucked. You probably don’t have it if: You aren’t growing You have high churn Your product is hard to sell Customers don’t seem to care that much Here are some simple steps to find product-market fit
There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.
New post! Over 30% of Americans now regularly listen to podcasts, and here’s my (with inputs from consumer team and research) 68-page overview + investment analysis on the industry. Thread 👇 https://t.co/ah77Vt5vqD
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. —@naval https://t.co/3lgp9t2…
Getting married in a week... any advice team?
Fun game for investment nerds: If you had $1000 to invest in any private or public companies, how would you allocate your capital? Time horizon to return capital is 10 years. Let's hear your strategies.
@tinvaan I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise stay off SV's radar. In other words, be the opposite of a scenester.
1/ LinkedIn is the New Craigslist: the same unbundling that happened to Craigslist is now about to happen to LinkedIn. Read more here: https://t.co/on2GydxK8v
One of the trends I'm most excited about is the democratization of b2b technology. Let's discuss. 1/
What’s your biggest questions about getting started with no-code?
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