- He wants founders who are thoughtful, but then make forceful decisions.
- Founders must be able to code, but he doesn’t have strong opinions about languages.
- Don’t raise more money until you’re sure you have product market fit.
- “most of the time entrepreneurs are realistic near the end and say this isn’t working. Those decisions aren’t that difficult. It gets more difficult in later stages when you’ve got millions of dollars in.”
“With so many approaches to product management, I found but a single common philosophy that bound all successful products together:
- Identify product opportunities.
- Create products to seize them.”
“How can you be flexibly persistent in your startup or in your career? Here’s a framework I use: ABZ Planning. In business and in life, you should have three plans: Plan A, Plan B, and Plan Z.” -Reid Hoffman
A few that jumped out at me:
3. You must go through the motions of being creative…The more times you try to get ideas, the more active your brain becomes and the more creative you become.
6. Never stop with your first good idea.
10. You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
11. Always approach a problem on its own terms. Do not trust your first perspective of a problem as it will be too biased toward your usual way of thinking.
12. Learn to think unconventionally. Creative geniuses do not think analytically and logically. Conventional, logical, analytical thinkers are exclusive thinkers which means they exclude all information that is not related to the problem.
