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Principi base per creare una nuova startup

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GENERAL
“A year from now, you will wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

Tiny Thought
The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don't feel like doing them.

If you let excuses or emotion drive behavior, you're cheating your future self.

Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do.

MAKE

The worst is to be with people that just confirm what you already think.
The best is to test your ideas as quickly as possible.

Risolviti i problemi da solo

e chiedi agli altri se è anche un loro problema.
Fai sondaggi aperti su internet, lascia che altri aggiungano domande o risposte al problema

Tratta problemi che conosci
Lascia perdere le cose per sentito dire, a meno che non sei dentro una community che parla a fondo del problema
Una volta sviluppata la soluzione rimani a contatto con il problema o delega a qualcuno più esperto di te (altro gender, altra classe sociale, altra razza).

Get ideas from your life experience. Get outside. Become original. Do crazy stuff that you're scared off.

Your enemy is perfection.
getting stuff out the door is the number one priority.

Sustainable way to build a startup:

  1. Build something yourself
  2. See if it works
  3. No, build something else
  4. See if it works
  5. No, build another thing
  6. See if it works
  7. It works!
  8. Let's see if I can monetize it
  9. I can hire some people now with the money I'm making with it
  10. Now I have a team of a few people
  11. If we want, we can rent an office, or just save money and stay remote
  12. The business model seems to be proven because every time I spend $1 more, I get $1.50 in revenue,
  13. thus it's scalable.
  14. This means, if I get more money, I can spend more and get more profit theoretically

SHIP

Product-market fit pyramid


The target customer is at the bottom because it is the most important element. If you mistake the customer that you’re going after, the entire pyramid can collapse and you might have to start all over again. You only want to target customers with underserved needs - otherwise, they will have no use for your product.

DESIGN

BUSINESS MODELS

Customer groups represent separate segments if:
• Their needs require and justify a distinct offer
• They are reached through diΩerent Distribution Channels
• They require diΩerent types of relationships
• They have substantially diΩerent profitabilities
• They are willing to pay for diΩerent aspects of the oΩe

EARN

Principi psicologici

First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibilities. Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassemble them from the ground up.

Socratic questioning generally follows this process:

  • Clarifying your thinking and explaining the origins of your ideas (Why do I think this? What exactly do I think?)
  • Challenging assumptions (How do I know this is true? What if I thought the opposite?)
  • Looking for evidence (How can I back this up? What are the sources?)
  • Considering alternative perspectives (What might others think? How do I know I am correct?)
  • Examining consequences and implications (What if I am wrong? What are the consequences if I am?)
  • Questioning the original questions (Why did I think that? Was I correct? What conclusions can I draw from the reasoning process?)

https://fs.blog/first-principles/

Search for falsification of your theory, not for confirmation.
https://fs.blog/karl-popper-on-science-pseudoscience/
1. It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory –if we look for confirmations.

2. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory–an event which would have refuted the theory.

3. Every ‘good’ scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.

4. A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

5. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability; but there are degrees of testability: some theories are more testable, more exposed to refutation, than others; they take, as it were, greater risks.

6. Confirming evidence should not count except when it is the result of a genuine test of the theory; and this means that it can be presented as a serious but unsuccessful attempt to falsify the theory. (I now speak in such cases of ‘corroborating evidence’.)

7. Some genuinely testable theories, when found to be false, are still upheld by their admirers–for example by introducing ad hoc some auxiliary assumption, or by re-interpreting the theory ad hoc in such a way that it escapes refutation.