Matt Joseph

[Matt Joseph @_mattjoseph]

How to get thicker skin:
1. Create something new
2. Tell people about it

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@Farzad_MD It’s a waste of money if it’s purely for PR. But if they keep this up for a few years, it’ll be the headline of their S-1 filing.

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@schlaf A scientist whose experiments are measured by profit

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@DavidSacks It's usually a function of seeing a big competitor doing a lot of things and believing that's what the market wants.

But whether or not you're running out of cash it's a natural progression early on to move from a broad position to a narrow one as you learn more.

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Founders are trained to focus on things that show up in investor decks. Interesting there’s no slide for emotional strategy even though founder breakdowns ruin investments faster than an empty bank account.

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@marcosluis2186 @andrewchen @Introchat Thanks for keeping us in mind Marcos! We can't really compare ourselves yet to the guys that Andrew mentioned - FB / LI / Superhuman - but we have an angle that might be just as effective when all's said and done.

Happy to discuss further if you want Andrew.

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There are lots of experts on scaling successful products, but very few experts on creating them.

It's not because scaling is that easy, but rather because creating is that hard.

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@IAMAnnaElyse great times, Wim Hof would be proud

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@heavypennies People using it tell other people like them to try it.

Then someone paying you for what’s happening in your product.

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Dr. King fought hatred with love, violence with peace, and oppression with inclusion. We're a long way from realizing his dream, but its relevance is greater now than ever before.

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@chimezie90 You know better than anyone else what interests you. Start there. But there are some pretty obvious universal themes though: underuse of basic government services, over-reliance on opioids, underuse of renewables, restrictive access to financial instruments, and so on.

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@CoreyBlinks Hire and empower diverse people

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Most founders spend too much time coming up with solutions and too little time figuring out which problems are worth solving

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@bobbygenalo @kickstarter Congrats my friend, great to see you bring this to life

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A great startup idea that's poorly timed isn't actually a great idea. If you're too early or too late to a problem, you have nothing.

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There are few better ways to improve your product than meeting with users who criticize it. Check your ego at the door and just listen.

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10 years ago: we’re building a platform for X

5 years ago: we’re taking X mobile

Today: we’re using AI to get rid of X

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When coming up with ideas, it's tempting to choose what investors will fund over what you truly believe in

Might make money. But then what?

[Sam Altman @sama]

It's easy to feel like there is no innovation left and the leaders are set, but that's never true.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

To find new ideas, read old books. 📚

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@mxschumacher Important to distinguish between hospital admins and physicians. The latter care about treatment, not playing insurers.