founders-guide

Founder's Guide: Rules for Product Design

I just got back from a week-long ski trip to Zermatt, a ski town in the alps.

Mar 4 •

Founder's Guide: First time founders think about product, second time founders think about theses

I. One of the biggest mistakes we made in my first company was that we thought endlessly about product.

Jan 31 •

Founders Guide: Prioritize Revenue and Profit over Growth

One story you could tell about the last ten to fifteen years of software development is about how people gave things away for free and ended up…

Jan 14 •

Regretful leadership

I Did you know that during the Vietnam War, there were almost 1000 cases of military personnel killing their superior or commanding officer with…

Nov 30, 2024 •

Founders Guide: Thoughts on Wartime Hiring

(Note: this one is from the archives, originally written back in April 2021.

Sep 26, 2024 •

Founder's Guide: Why should you only have one target demographic?

I recently had a conversation with my co-founder that went something like this:

Jul 12, 2024 •

Founder's Guide: The Importance of Brand Moats

I'm a technical person.

Jul 7, 2024 •

Founder's Guide: The Importance of Explicitly Delegating Power

Here's a not-quite-correct summary of a lot of political philosophy:

Apr 9, 2024 •

Founder's Guide: Finding the Right Idea

There's a saying in Silicon Valley: first time founders focus on product, second time founders focus on distribution.

Apr 3, 2024 •

A Founder's Guide: The Importance of Organizational Structure

Why corporate bureaucracy is good, actually

Nov 29, 2023 •

A Founder's Guide: Organizations as Systems

Written February, 2023. Published May, 2023.

May 19, 2023 •

A Founder's Guide: Collaboration at Google

Written Feb, 2022. Published March, 2022.

Mar 1, 2022 •

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