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GitHub / andersschmidthansen/thestartupjigsaw issues and pull requests

#137 - A board of 3 is ideal and never exceeds 5 unless publicly held

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s), Board

#136 - Thiel's 3 Distinguishing Concepts For Misalignment

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Team, Founder(s)

#135 - It's very hard to from 0 to 1 without a team

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Founder(s)

#134 - Founders should share a prehistory

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Founder(s)

#133 - Whom to start with is the first and most crucial decision you make

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Founder(s)

#132 - Consider Thiel's Law: "a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed"

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Reality Checks

#131 - Thiel's 2 questions to ask when thinking of what kind of company to build

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Idea

#130 - Operating a Startup Well, Requires Remembering The Power Law

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Reality Checks

#129 - The Differences Between Companies Will Dwarf The Differences In Roles Inside Companies

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Equity

#128 - You Cannot "Diversify" Yourself

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Reality Checks

#127 - We don't live in a normal world; we live under a power law

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#126 - Reject the Tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Startup Mentality

#124 - In Startups, Intelligent Design Works Best

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#123 - Growth comes in 3 types: Sticky, viral and paid

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Growth

#122 - Take one channel and execute on it alone for an entire week

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Growth

#121 - There is no point in waiting to launch the product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Product, Execution

#120 - Beware of Frankensteining your product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Product, User Feedback

#119 - Worry about the generic cases, not the edge cases when building the product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product, Execution

#118 - To get the best feedback, make someone pay for your product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product, User Feedback

#117 - Start Collecting Reviews And Ratings

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product, Execution, Growth, User Feedback

#116 - Evaluate Startup Performance by Customer Retention

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Product, User Feedback

#115 - Make user feedback a personal, comfortable conversation

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product, Execution, User Feedback

#114 - Make sure that there is a way for people to contact you

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Product, Execution

#113 - Cheung's Advice for Early User Base Creation

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Product, Execution

#112 - Prepare a One-Sentence Product Positioning Before Showing Your Product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Product

#111 - Cheung's 3 Be's For Creating a Product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Product

#110 - MVPs are the smallest feature set needed to solve the problem

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Product

#109 - Storyboard the user experience of your problem's solution first

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Idea

#108 - Corner off a certain part of the customer base and optimize accordingly

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Market

#107 - Become an expert in your industry

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: General Advice, Founder(s)

#106 - Know Thy Industry and Immerse Yourself In It

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Counterintuitives

#105 - The words "You should" often signals that advice is nearby

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#104 - Have a lot of time on your hands to concentrate on the startup

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#103 - Cheung's 3 Questions for Problem Evaluation

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Idea

#102 - Don’t worry about a competitor until they’re beating you with a real, shipped product

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution, Competition

#101 - Resolve team focus disagreements by doing whatever users tell you

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#100 - If momentum is slowing, increase the number of small wins

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Execution

#99 - Always keep momentum

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Execution

#98 - Do huge things in incremental pieces

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Execution, Founder(s)

#97 - Obsess about both moving fast and producing quality

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#96 - A tiny extra bit of work is the difference between success and failure

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#95 - Viral Coefficient should be 1.01 or more

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Execution, Growth

#94 - Have a startup and one other thing, that's all

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#93 - Don't get excited about your own PR

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution, Pitfalls

#92 - Never lose focus of growth and momentum

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#91 - Repeat goals over and over

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#90 - Create a set of small, overarching and omnipresent goals

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#89 - Have a 97% "No" Rate to stay focused on the important 3% that remains

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#88 - Only focus on 2-3 things a day

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#87 - Altman's 2 Key Questions of Execution

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#86 - Altman's 5 roles of the startup CEO

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution, Founder(s)

#85 - You are the execution machine

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Execution

#84 - Don't do remote work (?)

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Team, Hiring

#83 - Vesting 100% equity takes 4 years starting after 1 year

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s), Equity, Vesting

#82 - Co-founder equity splits are even and early

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s), Equity

#81 - The Fire Fast / Job Security Balance

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Management, Firing

#80 - Altman's 2 conditions for firing

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Firing

#79 - Fire fast

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Firing

#78 - Don't micromanage

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Management

#77 - Praise your team

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team

#76 - Learn basic management skills

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Team, Founder(s)

#75 - Retaining employees is crucial

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Team

#74 - Give more equity to employees than to investors

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Equity

#73 - Give ~10% of the company to the first ten employees

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring, Equity

#72 - Zuckerberg's 2 conditions for hiring

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#71 - Hire people with good communication skills

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#70 - Altman's 4 Reference Call Questions

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#69 - Work on a project together instead of interviews

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#68 - Altman's 3 criteria for a good hire

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#67 - Hire people you and your employees know

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#66 - Mediocre engineers do not build great companies

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#65 - Only hire when you desperately need to

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Hiring

#64 - You want a technical co-founder

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s)

#63 - Your co-founder should be tough and calm

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s)

#62 - X people should be starting X companies

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#61 - Your co-founder should be James Bond(-ish)

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s)

#59 - Choosing a random co-founder usually ends in disaster

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Founder(s)

#58 - Sideprojects may turn into startups when taking over a large percentage of your life

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#57 - Domain expertise really matters

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice, Founder(s)

#56 - The very best ideas almost always start as sideprojects

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Idea

#55 - To get startup ideas is to try to not think of startup ideas

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Idea, Counterintuitives

#54 - You can tell if you should start a startup

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Counterintuitives

#53 - Do not start a startup in college

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Reality Checks

#52 - The more successful you become, the less sympathy you will get if you complain

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Reality Checks

#51 - If you start a startup, it will take over your life

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Counterintuitives

#50 - Loved Products Fundraise Easier

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Fundraising

#49 - Startups cannot be gamed

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Counterintuitives

#48 - Stop "Playing House"

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Pitfalls

#47 - Expertise in your users trumps expertise in startups in terms of startup success

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: General Advice

#46 - Not trusting your instincts about people is a big mistake

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Pitfalls

#45 - Following your instincts will lead you astray

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Counterintuitives

#43 - Founders should always do sales and support in the beginning

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product, Founder(s)

#42 - Do not hire sales or customer support early on. Do that yourself.

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Pitfalls

#41 - Aim at getting 10% better every week

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago - 1 comment
Labels: Product

#40 - Build a "User Feedback to Product Decision Engine"

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product

#39 - Early product feedback loops should start with hand-recruited users

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Product

#38 - Don't start a startup if it terrifies you

Issue - State: open - Opened by AndersSchmidtHansen over 10 years ago
Labels: Startup Mentality