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.
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.
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