first-time founder
also referred to as: first time founder · first time founders · first-time founders
21 statements across 20 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 20 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2015 by Matt Williams · across every show →
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Jul 31, 2015
Matt Williams: First-time founders should bootstrap until achieving clear product-market fit
“So if it is a if it's a relatively new founding team that's never founded another company my advice is quite simple, which is to bootstrap as long as you can until you see some very clear traction, some very clear product market fit For the offering that you h…”
Jun 6, 2016 negative
Jul 29, 2016 negative
Dec 17, 2018 negative
Mar 4, 2019
Nov 29, 2019 positive
Brown: Founder experience builds critical intuition for high-leverage moments
“What I believe first time founders really struggle with is sifting between, let's say that the half a million minutes that don't matter and the 10 that do in the year, and that 10,000 hours or 20,000 hours of practice of doing it over and over really gives you…”
Mar 20, 2020
Handing off product leadership post-PMF is uniquely frightening for first-time founders
“As a first-time founder, especially as you're transitioning from this hunting for product market fit stage to really starting to scale and nurture letting go of product and finding somebody who you feel confident can fill those shoes is incredibly scary as a C…”
Nov 6, 2020 positive
Feb 22, 2023
Jul 21, 2023
First-Time Founders Neglect Firing Underperforming Talent Early Enough
“One of the things you realize about founders is first time founders, they don't realize they have to be great at firing. They just think they have to be great at hiring, but you have to be great at realizing when your talent's not working out and identifying t…”
Oct 23, 2023 negative
Nov 27, 2023 positive
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Biswas: VCs Should Not Filter Out First-Time Founders
“There are a lot of first time founders who are phenomenal. Like I think, you know, you think about Jensen from Nvidia, he's been, I think that's his first startup. It's turned out quite good, right? So that's the sort of thing where you'd also don't want to so…”
Jan 10, 2024
Feb 14, 2024
Gonto: Strong PMF Startups Wait Too Long to Build Growth Teams
“The biggest mistake that I see is that they start very, very late if the PMF is very strong. I've seen a lot of companies that have a very strong product market fit. And because of that, in the beginning, they just start getting a lot of revenue because big co…”
Mar 6, 2024
Wagner: First-time founders' biggest mistake is prioritizing expediency over value
“I think choosing expedience over, you know, the hard things that, that actually Contribute to long-term value. You know, there's sort of quick fixes and sort of feel-good measures that can take the edge off whatever is bothering you at a moment in time. But th…”
Apr 24, 2024 neutral
Apr 24, 2024 positive
Stebbings: Serial Entrepreneurs Are Better Investments Than First-Time Founders
“I don't like first-time founders like I like serial entrepreneurs, because you've just seen it, you know how to do hiring processes, you know what great looks like, you've avoided, you've seen the mistakes, you've made them.”
May 8, 2024 neutral
May 15, 2024 neutral
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Goldberg: First-time founders' hunger outweighs serial founders' experience
“First time founders. I think the ability to think from a clean slate to do foolish, potentially foolish, but on the other side, potentially visionary and transformative things, the hunger and the naivety that you described and a first time founder, I think out…”