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Marc Köhlbrugge @marckohlbrugge
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Being able to continuously make judgement calls on a business level (e.g. “what’s good enough”) _while_ coding and designing is a tremendous advantage of being a solo founder. Big teams can’t compete with that.
To be fair big teams can compete on a lot of other things. But there are more and more opportunities where being a solo maker is a huge advantage over having a team.
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Couldn’t come up with a better term than “solo maker” right now, but it’s not a perfect description. You still tend to work with with other people in some form of fashion. (e.g. peer-to-peer feedback in @wipchat, leveraging other people’s open source work, etc)
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💬 I often get Q’s like these:

How did you get your first customers for WIP? How did you grow BetaList’s traffic? Etc.

Makers are looking to reverse-engineer success. I see it everywhere.

I don’t think it works that way and the answers to those questions are mostly useless. 💥
I have built dozens of different products over the last couple of years. The vast majority failed. 😭

Surely if I know the answers to these questions, but still fail over and over again, these answers aren’t that useful. 🤷‍♀️

So what’s a better question to ask? 🤔
99.9% of the questions I receive are about the products that did well. In a way that makes sense, because we quickly forget about those that didn’t succeed.

🧠 This is known as survivorship bias.

Focusing on what survived, while ignoring what made it survive in the first place.
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Finished listening to the ‘Creative Selection’ audiobook by @kocienda

It gives a rare look behind the scenes at Apple, how they design products, and the amount of work that went into designing software we now take for granted like the iOS keyboard.

📖👌

creativeselection.io
It took me only a few days to go through the whole book. It normally takes me weeks if not months to finish a book.

That’s how good it is.

Shout out to @atpfm for the (sponsored) recommendation. 🙌
Some of the key insights for me personally are (in my own words):

👀 Show, don’t tell.

Rather than endlessly discussing ideas in the abstract, Apple engineers build prototypes that are demo’ed to each other and decision makers.
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Advice for first-time founders: Don’t build a service for other startups.

I know it’s tempting. It’s fun. You know the market. You understand the problem. You enjoy talking to your customers.

Problem: Every founder thinks this way so there’s A TON of competition.
Instead try and solve a problem for another domain you have experience in that other founders are less likely to touch.

A simple SaaS for SMB’s can be a great way to learn the ropes.
Full disclosure: I built @BetaList, @AllStartupJobs, @wipchat, @Request4Startup, etc 😂
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A lot of misconceptions about being a solo founder, here are some of my thoughts:
Team communication is better without a co-founder. Not having a co-founder means that there’s less room for miscommunication with the team as co-founders are often not on the same page.
Investors WILL invest in you. 🤑 Case in point: @podiadotcom raised $3m. @ycombinator perpetuated this idea that “every startup needs a co-founder” to be successful, but while this might be true for co’s going through YC, it’s simply not true for the greater startup ecosystem.
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