Best Linkedin Posts on building a startup

When in doubt, stay at your startup longer You know so much You can still help You are a founder You don’t have a better idea It’s just getting good, or close to it You created it You’ll be proud It’s supposed to be hard It’s never too late if you have happy customers

Has Stripe alone has returned the entire YC portfolio by 10x? Someone check my math: 3000 YC startups for ~120k an investment = $360m. Their Stripe position after dilution could be worth ~$3-4B on a $200B valuation. This doesn't even include their other gigantic wins like Coinbase, Instacart, Airbnb, Doordash, Cruise, OpenSea, Faire, Brex, Reddit, etc.

Acquisitions are becoming a key strategy among so many startups today, many are beginning to acquire smaller add ons to fill product gaps while others leverage M&A as a meaningful growth driver.

Startups are chaotic. The goal is to take that chaos and turn it into repeatable processes. Don't wear it like a badge of honor. #startups #enterpreneurship #growth

The first customer your startup gets is so special and memorable! They take a HUGE bet on you, when your "startup" is but a project :) #startup

The only problem with most startups is that ironically, they don’t really start. This might sound counterintuitive, but coming up with an idea is not the important ingredient of the start-up. Shipping your idea is! Anybody can come up with an idea. In fact, as you are reading this, somebody already is working on your idea in a different part of the world. Maybe an MVP has already been built and they are trying to get their first users, working on finding their product-market fit, or even looking to raise a funding round. The only way to beat them to time is by simply outworking them and bringing your idea to market faster. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. Don't wait too long to ship. But don't ship tooo soon either, as the first product impression could be a product that doesn't work for your target market. #startup #marketingstrategy #saas

5 profound startup mistakes: 1) Hiring for today's needs vs. tomorrow's 2) Being naive to your influence as CEO 3) Being nice ≠ being helpful 4) Hiring for experience in the 0-to-1 days 5) Picking one-off over process I break them down on Founder's Journal below 👇

My biggest startup hack? Speak to other founders --> ask what's worked --> what's failed and what they have learned. Varun Vummidi is a smart man - he is doing this at scale with many founders and capturing it for posterity. Disclaimer: I was fully sober when we had this chat but it was a lot of fun and perhaps I wouldn't have said some of the stuff if not for the fact that Varun was such a fun host :)