The Unsexy

Stop listening to your users (and start hearing them)

What they say is a symptom. Your job is to find the disease.

Jun 29 •

Passion is a terrible co-founder

Your passion won't save you. But a good system will. A short guide to getting your own momentum when motivation runs out.

Jun 20 •

Amateurs discuss strategy, professionals build engines.

An autopsy of a dozen dead strategies, and the one boring acronym that could have saved them.

Jun 10 •

A founder's guide to surviving the first year

How to dodge the party, call your friends, and find the guy with the Porsche.

Jun 8 •

The only question that matters when you're starting from zero

For when you're brilliant at planning but stuck on 'go'.

Jun 7 •

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