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- 6. Don’t have a mission
statement. Live and work for
what you stand for.
- 11. Start and work a little at a
time to see if it pans out.
You can burn out with little
to no risk. Fund it with your
day job.
- 12. A business has a path to
profit.
A startup is a crutch
(spending others’ money
without profit)
- 15. Cut out the good leaving the
great with a focus on your
epicenter.
- 23. Let your customers outgrow
your non-complex solution.
Don’t write down feature
requests. You will remember
the ones that are repeated
and matter.
- 25. It’s ok to be a quitter. Get
more eyes on a problem, and
reallocate your time to
something you can kill.
- 28. Be influenced, but don’t steal.
copying === letting someone else do the bulk of the work
- 36. You should learn your way
out instead of hiring your
way out of a problem.
Hire only when it hurts...bad.
- 37. Look at cover letters instead
of resumes. If it comes down
to a few candidates - choose
the best writer.
- 38. Any college or no college will do. How
long is not as important as how well you
can do something.
- 41. Apologies need to be sincere.
Everything you do leading up
to that point in the
relationship is important to
make it real.
- 45. After making a change ride
out the initial dissent. That
always happens.
- 46. Build a great environment of
busy people who go home at
5 everyday.
- 48. Few words - tons of
assumptions:
need, can’t, easy, just, only,
fast
Don’t f***ing say this sh**.