1/ The Best Startup Advice You’ll Ever Receive
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2/ Brit Morin (@brit)
Start something you’re genuinely passionate about.
I think the most important thing is to make sure the business you want to start is something you are *personally* passionate about, not just a big business idea.
Start something you’re genuinely passionate about.
I think the most important thing is to make sure the business you want to start is something you are *personally* passionate about, not just a big business idea.
3/ You have to fight and grind every single day, and you’ll be less likely to give up during the hard times if it’s something you deeply care about.
4/ Jack Dorsey (@jack)
Find good people to support you.
Reflect on what drives you and what you’re naturally passionate about. And find good people to support you.
Find good people to support you.
Reflect on what drives you and what you’re naturally passionate about. And find good people to support you.
6/ This is why in The Start-up of You, we talk about developing a competitive advantage by intersecting all three considerations: your assets (strengths), aspirations (values, passions, etc), and the market realities.
7/ Molly Graham ( @molly_g)
Listen to what your gut says. Trust it.
Wait for the moment when your gut or your heart makes itself VERY clear about hard decisions.
Listen to what your gut says. Trust it.
Wait for the moment when your gut or your heart makes itself VERY clear about hard decisions.
8/ The other thing…you should ALWAYS follow wonderful people that you want to learn from more than almost anything else in your career
9/ James Altucher ( @jaltucher)
Think about what you were interested in as a kid.
There’s never that “one thing” you are supposed to be doing. Don’t forget—the average multi-millionaire (and this is from tax data) has seven different sources of income, at least.
Think about what you were interested in as a kid.
There’s never that “one thing” you are supposed to be doing. Don’t forget—the average multi-millionaire (and this is from tax data) has seven different sources of income, at least.
10/ But one start is to think about all of the things you were interested in from the ages of 6–18. How does that translate into the modern day today? If you loved writing, maybe self-publish a book. If you loved stocks, think about finance.
11/ Daniel Pink (@DanielPink)
Advice for college students (and all of us)
-Try all kinds of new stuff. Don’t get locked into thinking you have to do certain things. Take courses in subjects you’ve never heard of. Join groups that push you out of your comfort zone.
Advice for college students (and all of us)
-Try all kinds of new stuff. Don’t get locked into thinking you have to do certain things. Take courses in subjects you’ve never heard of. Join groups that push you out of your comfort zone.
12/ -The secret to college is relationships. Seriously. Curriculum and the formal stuff are useful only as mechanisms for forging connections to others. So chat up people at the dining hall. Go to your professor's office hours.
13/ Kimmy Scotti
Don’t worry so much!
I think I would have told myself ten years ago to just worry less. I was so focused on my work/company/etc. that I didn’t stop to look around and realize how fun it all was in the process.
Don’t worry so much!
I think I would have told myself ten years ago to just worry less. I was so focused on my work/company/etc. that I didn’t stop to look around and realize how fun it all was in the process.
14/ Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
Find your superpower
Learn to be T-shaped; be good at a bunch of stuff, but then have a clear superpower where you’re world-class. To be world-class at something, you’ll have to work on a single thing night and day for years.
Find your superpower
Learn to be T-shaped; be good at a bunch of stuff, but then have a clear superpower where you’re world-class. To be world-class at something, you’ll have to work on a single thing night and day for years.
15/ Spend time writing and reflecting—more than reading, and more than reading tweets. It’s good to blend your work and your hobbies; that says you enjoy your work enough to do it all the time. Don’t sell your time for a living.
16/ Ken Norton (@kennethn)
Write your resume 10 years from now
Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of Product at Google, used to ask all the product managers on his team to write their resumes in 10 years. Where do you want to be? I was skeptical until I did it.
Write your resume 10 years from now
Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of Product at Google, used to ask all the product managers on his team to write their resumes in 10 years. Where do you want to be? I was skeptical until I did it.
17/ I realized pretty quickly that my resume in 10 years didn’t say “CEO.” I didn’t want to be a CEO. But I hadn’t explicitly stated that, and in many ways the PM career path defaults to the CEO career path.
18/ Kathryn Minshew (@kmin)
“No” is often just the starting point
The best piece of advice I ever received was that “no” is often just the starting point, and most careers worth having involve a fair amount of determination, grit, and just general “try try again”-ing.
“No” is often just the starting point
The best piece of advice I ever received was that “no” is often just the starting point, and most careers worth having involve a fair amount of determination, grit, and just general “try try again”-ing.
19/ Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)
Whatever you want to do, start yesterday
Whatever you want to do, start yesterday. Start earlier. Start NOW. The sooner you start, the sooner you can reap the benefits or figure out that it isn’t going to work.
Whatever you want to do, start yesterday
Whatever you want to do, start yesterday. Start earlier. Start NOW. The sooner you start, the sooner you can reap the benefits or figure out that it isn’t going to work.
20/ And you won’t need to wonder “what if” because you did it already. There is nothing more painful than the “what ifs” you carry around inside your head. So act on them! Now! DO IT! JUST DO IT!
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