Founder's Attitude - What does it take

My talk at the Hinterland of Things / Startup X conference in Bielefeld, Germany on February 2nd, 2018. You can book me: booking@vidarandersen.com

Transcript

1. Founder’s Attitude What does it take Hinterland of Things / Startup X
 Bielefeld, 2018.02.098
2. vidarandersen.com* *more information about this speaker than even his mother would want to know
3. Startups - Don’t Do It 90% of startups fail
4. Forget The Money You will (most likely) not get rich by doing a startup
5. Do It Because You Love To It’s all about the passion, the joy in chaos & being a pirate
6. Seize The Opportunities HUSTLE - say fuck yes – then learn how to do it later
7. “You Have To Livv In Ze Dirt” For years on end - this shit is going to take a LOOONG time
8. Screw Your “Idea” It’s all about execution - talk less, do more
9. Solve A Real Problem Don’t be a solution in search of a problem
10. Screw Your Business Plan No one cares about your projections - your damned lies
11. Everything In Writing Get shit written down in real signed contracts
12. Talk To Everybody FUCK YOUR NDA - get as much feedback as possible
13. Don’t Build It They won't come - create a Minimum Viable Product & iterate
14. Start With “Good Enough” Not perfect - perfect kills startups
15. Speed is of the Essence Fail fast, fail soon - build, measure, learn - repeat forever
16. It’s All About People Not about technology, ideas or business plans
17. Culture Is Everything Values, mission and vision critical to where you’ll end up
18. Communication Is King Over-communicate with your team - set goals and anti-goals
19. Raise The Bar Hold yourself accountable - lead by example
20. Beware Of Vanity Theatre Don’t get fooled by shit that feels good but doesn’t matter
21. REVENUE
 GROWTH EXIT *the only things that matter, in case you were wondering
22. Get Lean, Get Agile Start validating learning - be experiment- and data-driven
23. Do Customer Development TALK TO CUSTOMERS, test for problem - THEN test for solution
24. Get Out Of The Building Talk to REAL customers that will tell you your baby is ugly
25. Embrace Failure Post mortem, kanban, continuous deployment, 5 whys
26. Listen To Your Users Don’t talk - listen & search for patterns, not noise
27. Get All The Data Don’t build it if you can’t measure it - know your metrics
28. Learn, Learn, Learn It’s a continuous process - it’s your job, not somebody else’s
29. Ask For Advice And get money - ask for money, get advice
30. Follow Your Gut Listen to good advice - but don’t take it
31. Reach Out & Connect To anyone, anywhere - you have teh intarwebz
32. Build Relationships Early Getting funded is a long process - start early
33. Help Other Entrepreneurs Real founders help other founders
34. *if at first you fail, get up and go again, and again, and again, and again, and…
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