A few (unpopular) truths about creativity, ideas, and getting things done. 1. The first thing to learn about creativity is that it is necessarily embarrassing by nature. 2. Your idea will necessarily look and appear stupid early on because you have never done...
What The Strategic Founders Are Known For. *** Clarifications: We are using “The Strategic Founders” and “The Great Founders” interchangeably, to mean the same thing in this article, as we did in all of our contents on this website. Of course, using the two...
A Few Ideas About Finding Startup Ideas For The Strategic Founder 1. Great ideas seem wrong at first –which is why not many people have attempted them in the first place. Do you have an idea that you strongly believe in? Does it have a 'secret sauce' that you...
A Few Ideas About Launching Your Startup. 1. Planning is guessing. So until you test your hypothesis about the value of your product and about the market, you don’t really know what will work or what will not. Get out of the building and start testing what you...
Some Ideas on Startup Growth for The Strategic Founder. 1. It is hard to get users. It is best to start with that assumption and work from there. You’d be less surprised by how hard it is to get users later, and more poised to work harder and be more patient....
Some Ideas on Sales and Marketing for The Strategic Founder. 1. No matter how great your product is, if you have not figured out how to market and sell it, you have a bad business. While some people are only in love with their product, it is worth noting that...
So many things feel very urgent for a startup to do but all of them are not necessarily the most important things that must be done. The most important thing a startup should do is getting users and doing for them what they want. (Shockingly, as it may sound to many,...
Team is such an important thing in the startup world. A study says that 60% of startup failure is due to problems with team. Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, also found that team is the second most important thing for startup success, after timing. So if team is...
Although fundraising is hardly the most important and urgent thing a startup founder needs to do (creating what people want and getting them to use it is the most important thing in the company-building journey), he still has to deal with it -- because fundraising...
Some Ideas About Revenue Generation and Profitability for The Strategic Founder. Create what people want. Show it to them in persuasive ways for as long as is required. Apply all the product, growth, and marketing tactics and strategies presented in this...
Jeff Bezos said that while so many other companies focus on beating their competitions, Amazon focuses on pleasing and winning over the customer. Both approaches might look like they are the same but they are not. When you focus on your competition, you will likely...
As a startup, you don't need to worry so much about business model in the early days. But, even then, in the long run, you must have to figure out the appropriate business model for your company. It is therefore essential that you get a glimpse of what a business...
A Few Ideas About Business Planning for The Strategic Startup 1. Business plan only shows how much you understand your idea. 2. Business plan doesn’t show how much you can execute. 3. Nobody follows their business plan – since no plan actually works; a...
Some Piece of Advice for The Strategic Founder and some Mistakes He Should Avoid Making. 1. Don’t be a single founder. 2. Avoid bad locations. 3. Choose a niche that will pay if things pick up. 4. Be wary of ideas you don’t understand – especially problems you...
The Strategic Founder reads lots of books because learning is his second nature. He meditates a lot on what the great astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator, Carl Edward Sagan, believed about...