17 Great Insight for Startups

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One of the best underground blogs I have read lately is onstartups.com. Written by Dharmesh Shah, he has unique points and recommendations for any startup. He wrote a post today about 17 thoughts for any new company. Here are some of the highlights:

1- Startup founders work long hours for a reason.  There’s more work than there are people.  If you’re seeking balance, seek it elsewhere.

2- It’s lonely at the top, but even lonelier at the bottom.  In the early days of a startup, hardly anyone wants to talk to you (except some desperate vendors).

3- If you’re changing direction often, worry a little.  If you’re changing people often, worry a lot.

More great points here.

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6 Responses to “17 Great Insight for Startups”

  • Nick Gavronsky
    July 28th, 2006
    5:58 am

    Thanks, Noah! Great blog that guy has. I am definitely going to subscribe to it. He gives some great insight and inspiration.

  • Luke
    July 28th, 2006
    6:25 am

    Dharmesh – Related to Hiten?…

  • Crazy Factor » Interesting startup blog
    July 28th, 2006
    9:16 am

    [...] Thanks Noah Kagan for pointing me to the 17 pithy insights for startup founders. [...]

  • claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. » Archive » Small improvements
    July 28th, 2006
    10:11 am

    [...] Yesterday, Noah Kagan linked to a great startup advice list entitled 17 Pithy Insights for Startup Founders.  It’s reminiscent of another great list by Blogger founder Evan Willians entitled Ten Rules for Web Startups.  We found Williams’ list very early on in the ClaimID process and really took it to heart. List like these commonly feature a core piece of advice with which I agree wholeheartedly.  In the pithy list, it is “At the end of each day, ask yourself:  “Did the product get better for customers today?â€?.  If you don’t have a good answer, stay up until you do.“  Put simply, a startup should make its product better each day.  Of course, that doesn’t mean your work is always customer-facing – some days your work might only be blogging or responding to emails.  However, the lifeblood of a startup is feeding it with new thought, bugfixes, features – stuff that should be done daily.  You must constantly work to make your product better. Today, we’ve made our product better.  Michael Biven and a number of others in the ClaimID community wanted to make groups collapsible so browsing large ClaimID’s was easier.  So this morning, we rolled it live, and now you can collapse groups in ClaimID.  Indeed, that’s a small improvement. However, the thing about small improvements is that they add up to big improvements.  And when the requests come from the community, you know you’re making things better for the people who matter the most. [...]

  • Adam
    July 28th, 2006
    7:57 pm

    Noah, thanks for the great article. That’s one I’m gonna save. Hope you’re enjoying Korea :)

  • iBjorn » Blog Archive » 5 Things You Should Know
    August 7th, 2006
    2:51 am

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