In the current age of Generative AI, it seems that the startup world is on fire, again. So many startups moving fast and breaking things, and surprisingly the large companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon are also making big moves, in a manner I have never seen before. Resulting in a very unique, fast moving and potentially confusing moment in time for a tech founder.
What do you do as a founding team, that has no money, no customers, no distribution, no network, but an idea with potential, that's worth building?
It's hard to say what the right moves are, but here is what I think - it's more important than ever to focus on the right people and problems.
As we've heard from PG - "make something people want", by making something you want, and solve the core problems that are obvious to you. Recently, I got an email from a very successful serial tech entrepreneur, and he wrote "focus on users and deeply empathize with their problems. If you do that well then the product and fundraise will take care of themselves."
It sounds simple, but I wholeheartedly agree with what he wrote. When you deeply empathize with your users, and execute to solve their problems, you uncover the real problems that need fixing, and secrets in plain sight that can result in amazing outcomes.
Personally, it's what I want to be doing, I want to spend my limited working hours on something that is a true need/want by me and the group of people that I am inspired to serve.
In an interview you can find online, Steve Jobs said the following:
What do you do as a founding team, that has no money, no customers, no distribution, no network, but an idea with potential, that's worth building?
It's hard to say what the right moves are, but here is what I think - it's more important than ever to focus on the right people and problems.
As we've heard from PG - "make something people want", by making something you want, and solve the core problems that are obvious to you. Recently, I got an email from a very successful serial tech entrepreneur, and he wrote "focus on users and deeply empathize with their problems. If you do that well then the product and fundraise will take care of themselves."
It sounds simple, but I wholeheartedly agree with what he wrote. When you deeply empathize with your users, and execute to solve their problems, you uncover the real problems that need fixing, and secrets in plain sight that can result in amazing outcomes.
Personally, it's what I want to be doing, I want to spend my limited working hours on something that is a true need/want by me and the group of people that I am inspired to serve.
In an interview you can find online, Steve Jobs said the following:
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity.
Simple can be harder than complex.
You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Good luck and happy building.