The starting line: Build less: less features, options, people, meetings, promises. Solve your problem. You know what’s is important and what’s not for the product itself. It’s likely people have the same problem so now you have a market too. Fund yourself Outside funding is plan B. Investors want their money back quickly → overhead + other complicated things follow. Money constraints force you to focus + allow creativity....
Takedowns. Today is a new reality where anyone can be in business. Informations are easy to access and within reach. It’s easy to work from home or collaborate with others across the globe. Stuff that was impossible is simple today. Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you can’t control. Plans are guesses. Don’t be obsess you it. It’s OK to wing....
The Slowlane is to get a good job, invest in the stock market, max out your 401k and be rich by 65. It demands a long time of employment. You have limited leverage and limited control with a job. Fixed income: the pay rate is fixed for a year and it takes a long time to get a raise. Fixed hours: you can only do so much. $10,000 investment with 15% return will worth $2....
A book for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion: Be an amateur, not afraid to voice your opinion, be willing to share. Document your process, start a journal, record it, take photo,… Share/publish something small everyday. Once you finish your work for the day, reflect on it, share some of its process. 90% of everything is crap. True for your own work. Don’t be afraid to share....