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Sarah Washburn's avatar

Can I get an AMEN!

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Jeroen Coelen's avatar

AMEN Sista

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Aditya's avatar

Agreed. I do think you have to go in with the desire to revolutionize something. Realists would very quickly realize this is a losing game, while optimists have more runway just through their energy.

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Jeroen Coelen's avatar

An interesting paper from 2019 found that revolutionist founders get less traction than pragmatic founders. Just focus on creating value, not on evangelism.

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Aditya's avatar

Source? Paper sounds interesting.

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Jeroen Coelen's avatar

It was 2020, sorry:

Zuzul, Tiona, and Mary Tripsas. “Start-up Inertia versus Flexibility: The Role of Founder Identity in a Nascent Industry.” Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 2 (June 2020): 395–433. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219843486.

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Damien Kopp's avatar

Love it! Thanks for sharing!

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Ruben Dominguez Ibar's avatar

😅

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Chris Tottman's avatar

And start obsessing about the value exchange btw your people, product, price, packaging and customers, buyers & users 💙

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Jeroen Coelen's avatar

Didn't expect to so packaging in there, but sure

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LNANGA's avatar

Insightful. Thank you

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Sonia Ferrer Rentero's avatar

hahahah love this - prioritise effective work and stop wasting time on this kind of bullsh*t.

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Thijs Fiselier's avatar

What about the 80% of Startup builders on LinkedIn? Claiming to have grown businesses from zero to multi-million ARR in weeks.

Yeah right…

🚨 bullshit radar too?

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Hugo Rauch's avatar

🤯

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