Find a team that thoroughly understands the value of their distribution channels, knows how to measure product, and gives a shit about their customers.

A company gets what it measures and celebrates.

Momentum is the oxygen of startups. Leaders must find ways to supply it when it's absent.

Eight years later, this lecture from an unlikely source remains one of the most personally influential and lasting pieces I've found on leadership. theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-l…

Great product teams continuously focus on deepening the collective understanding of their differentiators, core value, and how they grow, then invest with urgency. Comprehension of all three starts with customer motivations and constraints before working backward.

First time founders are obsessed with product. Second time founders are obsessed with distribution.

Adaptability and grit play major roles in predicting success at a startup. Attitude is an additional multiplier. If you don't have the requisite amounts of all three, joining a team striving to build something meaningful is going to be a rough ride.

Menlo's Naomi Pilosof Ionita leads the discussion on Getting the Most From Your Marketing Channels with Brittany Bingham @raiselabs, @grammarly & Paul Ghio Creative Market focusing on acquiring, engaging, & retaining customers at scale. #GrowthMarketingConf

When you're building a product, there's no substitute for walks and whiteboards.

In reductionist terms, the purpose of most products is to move someone from one emotional state to another.

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Airchat is one of the most meaningful products I've ever used. Watching Brian and the team bring it to life has been a true masterclass in creating something new.

Pretty good considering I took only two years of Spanish in High School

The story of what the Creative Market team pulled off in 2014. buff.ly/15n9kEF

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Creative Market is independent once again, and we're just getting started. medium.com/building-creat…

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After being defeated, the best get better