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  • MAKE MANTRA. Forget mission statements; they’re long, boring, and ir relevant. No one can ever remember them—much less implement them.
    The Art of the Start
  • I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. —Ludwig van Beethoven
    The Art of the Start
  • But remember: many books should be articles (and many articles should be tweets,
    How I take smart digital notes—Part 1: A map for the journey | Ramses' Blog
  • Your freedoms might entitle you to endanger yourself, not others.
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  • And then last, don't fall in love with your MVP. So many people fall in love with the vision in their head. And none of the products I showed you before was the initial vision, what it ended up being. So please don't fall in love with your MVP. It's just step one in a journey. You wouldn't fall in love with a paper you wrote in the first grade. And, like, that's like the level of impact often your MVP has.
    How to Plan an MVP: Getting Started, Building Product | Y Combinator
  • First, time box your spec. So, your spec is the list of stuff you need to build before you launch. Time box it. Say, okay, what happens if I want to launch in three weeks? Okay, well, the only things that could be on my spec are things I can build in three weeks. That makes your life a lot simpler. It allows you to remove all the features you can't build in three weeks.
    How to Plan an MVP: Getting Started, Building Product | Y Combinator
  • So, I have this saying: Hold the problem you're solving tightly, hold the customer tightly, hold the solution you're building loosely.
    How to Plan an MVP: Getting Started, Building Product | Y Combinator
  • I consider myself as an idea hacker, passionate about putting cool ideas with potential into practice. I love how fine products make us happier, make our lives easier, and sometimes if possible, create impact to the humanities. I believe great products and services are the key to break limitations of human capabilities.
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  • More often than not, the difference is the founding team. Many people can build nice landing pages; few can truly create a giant company. It’s possible you’re building the exact same thing as them, but you’ll just be faster and better. In ways that are hard to describe, like our point with GTM above. So, in closing, it’s not the end of the world. Don’t be first, be last. Be best. Or, in the words of the great Al Davis: “Just Win Baby”.
    Pre-launch Competition | Daniel Gross
  • Being first doesn’t matter. Being last matters. The existence of competitors should give you strength. It means you’re working on something that other people think is interesting, too. It also means that you’ll move faster; you have a virtual adversary to match with.
    Pre-launch Competition | Daniel Gross
  • Every product has a certain vintage, a set of choices that reflect the era in which it was conceived. Because of the rapid pace of advancement in tech, design, and user expectations, products can show their age very quickly. This is a major challenge product leaders must contend with if they are in charge of older products, as well as something that should be considered from the get-go for new products exploring green field possibility spaces. Vintage is the debt accrued across three components: concept, technology, and users.
    Product Vintage - Nick Punt's Ephemera