Bad customer conversations aren’t just useless. Worse, they convince you that you’re on the right path. They give you a false positive that causes you to over-invest your cash, your time, and your team. Even when you’re not actively
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“The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence, to start from something the customer might see—the public announcement—and work backward.”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“[that if] you created the right type of corporate community, the right type of autonomous congregation, genius would flower.”
― Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
― Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Traction and product development are of equal importance and should each get about half of your attention. This is what we call the 50 percent rule: spend 50 percent of your time on product and 50 percent on traction. Building”
― Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
― Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
“The idea that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action”—and that we should embrace an overall ethos of “Fast! Fast! Fast!”—is a good way to get killed. 10X leaders figure out when to go fast, and when not to.”
― Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
― Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
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