Startup Learned

Only fools know everything. #Startup #GrowthHacking #Traction

[Startup Learned @startuplearned]

Tech is a commodity (a commodity that’s hard, and that you have to get right, but still a commodity) @benedictevans #startup #startups #GrowthHacking #Marketing

[David Perell @david_perell]

What's causing all these logos to look the same?

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way.

For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know:

TIME FOR A THREAD 👇

[Steve Jobs Stories @SJobs_Stories]

"Vision for Apple was: What incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer ? Not starting with 'let's sit down with the engineers, and figure out what awesome technology we have and how we're gonna market that.'" — Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997

[Tren Griffin @trengriffin]

1/ Current economic conditions are changing the game on the field. If you run a business and it is instrumented well, you don't need to guess about whether the factors influencing LTV are changing in your business. Other businesses will experience different impacts. It depends.

[Dave Nemetz @davenemetz]

Successful startups need some hype to get the ball rolling. That initial buzz helps attract talent, investors, and customers. But needs to be something there besides hype at the end of the day.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The only way you’re likely to find product-market fit is if you’re almost irrationally obsessed with the market and if you’ve been working on it for a long time."

@naval

[Eric Paley @epaley]

It is vital to act as a shield for your team in tough times.

Be honest, but spare your team the ups, downs, and gory details. They didn't sign up for the same level of volatility that you did as the founder.

Stay positive. Even the best companies face tons of rejection!

[Startup Learned @startuplearned]

Work loses meaning when there’s a gap between its pretense and its reality. For most people with such jobs, the gap arises in the worker’s own mind - David Graeber. #work #jobs #job #career #Careers #Employee #startup

[Startup Learned @startuplearned]

“If something is important enough you should still try even if the probable outcome is failure.” Elon Musk #Musk #Elon #startup #startups

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- Buckminster Fuller

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”
- Steven Johnson

[Startup Learned @startuplearned]

Startup wins by focusing on what the customer wants, not someone's ego. #StartUp #entrepreneur #innovation #marketing #startups #traction

[Startup Learned @startuplearned]

The greatest trick the Devil ever invented was persuading people that speculating you will get traction is traction. Sometimes. @benedictevans #traction #startups #startups

[Naval @naval]

You’re doing sales because you failed at marketing.

You’re doing marketing because you failed at product.

[Olivier Cantin @oliviercantin]

People don’t buy your offer, they buy the bridge from pain island to pleasure island

[Wisdom Theory @wisdom_theory]

The problem for artists comes when they forget marketing.

The problem for marketers comes when they forget art.

[Guillaume Moubeche @GuillaumeMbh]

$10 client: "Would it be possible to change your terms and conditions? We also need a discount btw"

$100,000 client: "Money sent, thanks"

[Dago | Recovering perfectionist @dagorenouf]

I used to listen to everyone's advice on my startup.

Because I thought I didn't know what I was doing 😰

But most advice didn't understand my product 🤨

And didn't help me at all 😒

Then I started talking with my customers...

And realized they had all the answers I needed 💙