Happy Holidays team! As we wind down the year, we have much to be thankful and grateful for as our business continues to grow! #agentz#startups#ai https://t.co/mPzMfh7o8r
No Plan Survives First Contact With the Enemy.
This quote from Helmuth von Moltke is one of my favorites.
A more recent variation of this is Mike Tyson's "Everybody has a plan till they get punched in the face".
These quotes teach two important les…https://t.co/WC4AOh1Pgn
Is your product SLIPPERY?
How to build successful products which consumers love? Your product should bake in the following principles.
S - Simple
L - Low to no initial cost
I - Installs easily
P - Proves value quickly
P - Plays well with other products…https://t.co/2y5SzHDnJ1
Are you a startup founder?
How do you measure product market fit?
Do you measure it by revenue? Do you have it when you reach 1M ARR? Experts say it may not be a good way to find if you attained product market fit because it just means you know how to…https://t.co/m156bM30Vq
An important lesson for entrepreneurs.
What valuable company is nobody building?
This question hides a lot of complexity even though it sounds very simple. A company could create a lot of value without becoming valuable itself.
Providing value is not t…https://t.co/9VPisyHyLG
I will fully admit: the NFT price explosion had distracted me from the broader value that's emerging around the blockchain. Clearly an open, immutable database that no one controls but any app can talk to and build upon -with monetization built in on day on- is quite powerful.
Saw this message on a YouTube premiere by Adam Erhart about building a marketing strategy. It's so simple yet quite powerful.
"the customer doesn't buy when they understand, they buy when they feel understood"
#marketingstrategy#salesstrategy#startu…https://t.co/g5ciRu6hXK
Each step in a startup's growth brings qualitative as well as quantitative change.
Drew Houston of Dropbox expresses it best as
"The chessboard keeps adding new pieces and new dimensions over time"
#startup#growth#scalingup
Photo by Tima Miro…https://t.co/EkJaAeWECQ
In a negotiation, getting your opponent to say "that's right" is a winning strategy. But hearing "you're right" is a disaster!
Why?
Whenever someone is bothering you, what do you do to make them shut up and go away? You tell them "you're right" and they…https://t.co/JW3OxVgssM
"It's like harpooning a whale. The good news is, you've harpooned a whale. And the bad news is, you've harpooned a whale!"
Drew Houston (Dropbox Founder) on #blitzscaling
Blitzscaling is completely opposite of classic business strategy. You got to accep…https://t.co/KWxbY4Vvmo