For a company to be successful there are literally only two functions the company has to perfect. Building and Selling. Thats it. Metrics and analytics are only the score card, the reporting mechanism to determine if what you are building will sell, and what you are selling is worth building.
via Just Fucking Sell.
Experimentation, quantity, and a propensity for shipping outperform obsession over a single piece.
don’t go looking for a cofounder to enable you to implement an idea, which you’ve settled on already, that’s outside your reach. That’s not a cofounder, it’s an employee who’s executing on your plan, and should be paid with money.
via Idea reach and the cofounder myth – swombat.com on startups.
If you are multi-skilled enough to be able to implement all startup aspects by yourself, you can then become an “army of one” entrepreneur, building multiple profitable products in parallel, turning the “several people work full time on a startup” equation on its head – and getting wealthy in the process.
via The “Army of One” entrepreneur – swombat.com on startups.