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Focus
The importance of deep focus work in early startups specially for engineers
Spotify • Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels
It’s hard enough to do one thing right. Trying to do ten things well at the same time? Forget about it. So sacrifice some of your darlings for the greater good. Cut your ambition in half.
Jason Fried • ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
The core product needs constant attention. If the core product is declining, as was the case for AYI, there’s always a new fire that needs to be put out. So, if resources are shared between the moneymaker and the new initiative, all the time and attention will go back to the core product to put out the ‘fire.’ It’s impossible to justify keeping peo
... See moreCliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
But here’s the key for an early-stage startup: "As we’re building our plans, we only focus on those first three months, that first chapter. So we break that down into monthly high-level goals, and that's what I hold the team accountable for,” he says. In other words, don’t try to get detailed for longer than a few weeks out. "At a startup, it’s alm... See more