A Seed Stage Mental Framework to Limit Failure as a Startup Founder

  • "people don’t know what they want until you create it for them" in point 2

    "“Go looking for your user base” is something that you need to do since day one when you start writing the first line of code" in point 1

    Don't you contradict yourself?

    Startup is not about creating stuff. It is about solving a problem. People will not be like "oh yeah, I didn't know I had this problem!" So, spending 4-6 month to discover that is extremely expensive.

    "Remember that "not-remote" is intrinsically better than "remote" and that brings many advantages." - well, that is a very hard story to sell in 2020

  • The next big startup in the 2020s will be comprised of a team that is aggressively remote, will launch their first product after 4 to 6 months, and conducts regular interviews with customers through video conferences.