startup founder

“And it doesn't matter, in my experience, what your motivation is. I don't think either of these motivations, like, it sounds like some of them would be better than others. In my experience, it's not the case. The motivation will change over time to just runnin…”

“As a startup founder, just focus on your customers and focus on B to B. That's what most people I recommend to do here, because that's where most of the change is going to happen.”

“What you should be focusing on when you build a startup is, like, talk to customers, build the product, exercise, and, like, if you, if you're not, like, if you find yourself doing something else, then those three things, it's probably, like, the wrong thing t…”

“The editor, the writer, they, like, I'll just say it as plainly as possible. They don't care about you. They don't care about you. They care about their reader, or their listener, or their viewer. That's who they care about. That's who they're serving. And if …”

“And I think a lot of folks, their inclinations are to like, you know, build a landing page and buy some Instagram ads and try to get people to sign up for something. And again, maybe I, maybe that's something, but I think a lot of the reason people do that is …”

“Even if you're the best in the world, being coached and being reminded of the fundamentals and basics is what puts you in the right mindset and that you already know everything, right? You're at the top of your game. If you make it to the elite levels of being…”

“I think it's look at your calendar and there should be, you know, 20 or 30% of your time that the calendar says something like customer Meeting, customer call, like meeting with foo, meeting with this person. And when the calendar is not that, or it's all, you…”

“If we define it as the company had a near death experience where it was going poorly and the founders seriously wondered if it was all going to be over a hundred percent of the time people go through that, you know, with the founders like, yeah, I guess we're …”

“If you're a startup founder, you've got to be okay with, I'm just going to go for this. And I know I probably won't get it, but it's so meaningful to me. I'm going to go for it anyway. And so to me, that's not just about The big picture of running a startup. I…”

“It's easy to misremember how things really happened. And what I find is even the founders themselves, we have a tendency to remember knowing more than we really did at the time.”

“There are only two reasons that you would like to give up. One is that your mission is wrong, right? So, so the problem disappears. And if the problem disappears, your mission is no longer relevant or no longer valid, then you might want to consider to give. T…”

“Like, you shouldn't have a Rolex, right? It's like very classless, if that makes sense, to like show up as a startup founder with a Rolex, right?”