Do not improve your product based on the feedback of those who do not use your product. Improve your product by talking to the people who already use your product, but aren't in love with it. Reward early adopters, who in turn will reward you with more users.

Startups unbundled Craigslist over the last 10 years: @airbnb, @taskrabbit, @upwork, @uber, Indeed. Now it’s GSuite’s turn: Airtable, Notion, Superhuman, Consider.

Software development can be very hilarious. You create a piece of software to solve a problem for people. People start using the software & love it because it saves time. Months later, the same software starts frustrating people that it made happy in the first place. Madness!

UPDATE: ❗$1BN mark reached❗ Meet the 7️⃣7️⃣ #startups in #Africa that raised $1M+ funding in 2019: 📊$1.1B raised cumul. in 83 deals 📊15 (19%) (co)founded by women 📊35% are in #Fintech 📊75% funding goes to🇳🇬(55%!) 🇿🇦🇰🇪 📊168 different investors Let me know if I missed any !

Give a programmer three weeks to complete a large task, and she’ll spend two weeks procrastinating, and then one programming. Give the same programmer one day to code a small, specific feature / task, and she'll complete it, ready to move onto the next one.

As a consultant, I'm seeing an epidemic: Companies are wasting millions by giving developers slow laptops. Today I said "npm install x". My laptop: 10 seconds. 😀 Their laptop: 3+ minutes. 🤯🤦‍♂️ Why? Weak processors, little RAM, platter drives, and slow security scanners.

I don't think people realize that there is no normal to go back to anymore.

4/10 - Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop Code: github.com/cyrildiagne/ar… Book: @HOLOmagazine Garment: SS17 by Karen Topacio Type: Sainte Colombe by Yoann Minet Production Type Technical Insights: ↓ #ML #AR #AI #AIUX #Adobe #Photoshop

When a bootstrapped competitor is growing faster than your venture funded company x.com/Meich/status/1…

"No meetings before 11am. No meetings when emails or calls will do. Don’t schedule calls, text coordinate them on the fly when possible. Cram all meetings into two days a week. 1-on-1s are usually 30-minute walking meetings.(Meetings are the death of productivity)" - Naval

I worked with a friend to launch his first-ever digital product. Specifically an ebook in the fitness space. His goal was to do $10k in sales the first month. We hit just over $25k with barely any ad spend. Here's exactly how we did it 🧵

Founders spend too much time building products and not enough on good habits. Good habits saved my life:

As a PM, having a technical background is like having a superpower: You can predict timelines, anticipate blockers, and avoid black holes of endless work. In this week's post, I share advice for how to quickly level up your technical skills. Summary in 🧵 lennysnewsletter.com/p/getting-more…

Don't try to learn too many things as a Software Developer. You can't possibly know everything.

Reflexology is one of my favorite rich people shit to waste money on A Chinese lady massages your feet for 90 minutes Ancient Egyptian medicinal technique, where they discovered that all body parts are interconnected and through massaging the feet many problems can be fixed

The most powerful trend in tech right now: "The TikTokization of Everything" How it's reshaping literally every industry:

🚨FTX USED QUICKBOOKS FOR THEIR ACCOUNTING. 😂BRUH.

Maybe obvious thought but last night I realized: The internet was just a way to move all human knowledge into a structured format easily accessible by computers so that AI could then arise and train on all of that Before the internet that knowledge was too dispersed, in books,