Ivar Merilo

Co-founder of @thorgate & @waybillercom. Estonian. Father. @seedcamp alumni. #Python developer. Maker.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The quality of your mind is the quality of your life."

@naval

[Aaron Harris @harris]

Across the ~30 unicorns I’ve funded, there’s only one common founder trait: optimism.

[Jens Stoltenberg @jensstoltenberg]

Honoured to join PM @kajakallas &
President @vonderleyen in Tallinn to mark Independence Day. #Estonia knows freedom is not for free. #NATO & the EU stand with #Ukraine in its fight for freedom.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Estonia 🇪🇪 is one of the best countries in the world to raise children. https://t.co/lxNkPEdYy3

[Suhail @Suhail]

A team that ships quick together, sticks together.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Relax. You’ll live longer *and* perform better."

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything."

@naval

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

The “get shit done” founder always beats the “perfectly planned strategy” founder because speed is a startup's biggest advantage.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I think everyone is underestimating how important it is to ship fast in this time and age

I'm able to go from idea to product in 6-12 hours

That gives you a first mover advantage

A simple tech stack becomes important

[Ivar Merilo @meriloi]

The value is in what gets used, not in what gets built #productmanagement #startups

[Jonathan Miz @BoringSaaSGuy]

Most successful startups sell solutions to problems, not the tech they use.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

When building a startup 70% done today is better than 100% done with month-long delays in search of perfection that does not exist.

[John Braat 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇿 @jebraat]

One of my biggest learnings while building a startup:

Things take longer than you think

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"If you can't decide, the answer is No."

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind."

@naval

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Ship fast, listen to customer feedback, iterate, improve, repeat steps until product market fit is found. This is how startups are built, pretty simple.

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

Most successful startup founders don't whine, complain, make excuses, blame people or things out of their control, they just get shit done.

[Ivar Merilo @meriloi]

Building a great product is a creative, chaotic process which you won’t get right every time, so you have to also be learning from success and failure #productmanagement #startups

[KP @thisiskp_]

Quote on my mind today:

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

[Janis Ozolins @OzolinsJanis]

It doesn't take much to be in the top 5%.