Announcing Neighborhood Studios

Published on 2023-03-22

Mentoring founders is hard

What's your earned secret?

Make one doughnut

Focus on problem being solved rather than technical difficulty of solution

You can't skip steps

Don’t pay for customers for years

Founders need a theory of human behavior

It takes 3 years to know what you have

Creativity loves constraint

Permission to say "it's not working"

Product-market fit isn’t rational

Raising money takes 6-9 months

It's all about love (not likes)

Blog post #100...My process

Share your idea with lots of people

Good ideas have to look terrible

Iterate your first product with a small group ideal users

Make customer value prop one simple thing

Every startup is a series of pivots