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but also because most people are threatened by ambition: you seem to be trying to put yourself above them, even if that isn’t your intention.
How to Apply to Y Combinator | Y Combinatorit is for this reason better to disclose all the flaws in your idea than to try to conceal them.
How to Apply to Y Combinator | Y Combinatorwhat we look for in ideas is not the type of idea but the level of insight you have about it.
How to Apply to Y Combinator | Y CombinatorBetter to start with an overly narrow description of your project than try to describe it in its full generality and lose the audience completely
How to Apply to Y Combinator | Y Combinator10x product experience
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav Narulaconstructing a MOAT is a function of time
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav NarulaSo the right way to think about it is that distribution channels are a precursor to building distribution advantage.
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav NarulaMOATs are developed over time.
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav NarulaInstagram has built a sticky product with all your friends, and each time you add a friend, it (#1) makes IG that much better for you, and (#2) increases the switch cost by a lot.
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav NarulaYour MOAT should make it harder for competitors to enter your market.
Your startup doesn't have a MOAT — Keshav NarulaBut for friends we have old-fashioned fun with, it’s harder to see the evolution. We can imagine having a good time, but it feels like eating junk food—great in the moment, but not contributing to our long-term goals. This is wrong and short-sighted.
Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli QianYou have to do the thing you actually enjoy doing, not the thing you find conceptually exciting.
Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli QianWorld-building IRL is highly emotional — it is rewarding, and it hurts, because of how much you care.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.If you find yourself with an overwhelming amount of interest, your job is to design and implement infrastructure (social, technical, etc.) to harness this energy and turn it into something productive (this might look like incrementally teaching people how to lead, supplying them with tools, raising more money, finding larger spaces, etc.).
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.A harsh reality that I was lucky to learn young — you don’t get people’s attention or earn their trust by “having potential”.
The Backdoors. - by Joss - box.People enjoy doing work that is meaningful, and when they feel they are being challenged, learning, and contributing value, they do a good job.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.fun is the glue that holds us all together
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.Communities die when everyone seeks to gain more than they hope to give.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.Personal growth, ideas, and relationships persist — and compound — long past the lifespans of organizations and individual contributors.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.We personify organizations to the point where we forget that under the layer of logos, there are people who go about their everyday lives.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.hat interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he
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