smallness
in defense of smallness, because we don't need to build an empire. we just want to live lives that are rich in meaning.
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smallness
Apple encourages big thinking but small everything else.
Ken Segall • Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
I don’t know who needs to hear this but… Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.
The right small: a different perspective:
I say “the right small” because just “being small” or touting “the long game” can be as much of an error as going mass. Many confuse the passage of time for “the long game”
the goal is resonance, not scale
building and monetizing soulful businesses + brands where the goal is resonance, not scale
sari and • 60 cards
Almost everything about growing the size and scale of your team has immediate and detrimental impacts to the thing that matters the most: building awesome products.
Unless you actively fight against these effects, you’ll wake up one day with a very effective bureaucracy machine and a very poor product (and a slow... See more
claire vo 🖤x.comYou sometimes hear that a team built something great despite being small - we think that teams most often build great things because they’re small (with strong talent, passion, and chemistry, of course). So our hiring approach thus far is hiring only people that are so talented they could have been co-founders in another sequence of events. We’re... See more
Interview with Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson
it’s as hard to start and run a small business as it is to start a big one. You will suffer the same toll financially and psychologically as you bludgeon it into existence. It’s hard to raise the money and to find the right people. So if you’re going to dedicate your life to a business, which is the only way it will ever work, you should choose one... See more