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@kazi
Applied for a founder reality tv show!
Show me some love 🦋
https://youtu.be/_FCMSEdHUos?si=jyfSwbuwrELZ0dZv
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@bfg
Tinkering is great. It just isn't a business.
But I don’t mistake it for building a business or company.
Tinkering should be fun. It doesn’t need a reason to exist except for you enjoying it.
Building a business can be fun too, but it needs a reason to exist and distribution channels to get to those who benefit from its existence.
Two different things, even though they look almost identical at the start.
One of them you can do forever. The other one has to eventually work.
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@bfg
It’s so refreshing and also hard to step out of the tech & startup bubble (yeah, that includes Web3 and AI too)
And meet people who don’t know what coworking is, what meetups are, what a startup is, what VC stands for, or how someone can get rich making something that’s losing money.
Yet, surprisingly, these folks live full lives, have jobs, dreams, and plans as we do here … they just don’t know or care about us. They use tools we make when they find them useful or entertaining, and that’s it.
Everything else is uninteresting to them.
There are far more folks like this than you realize, unless you step out of our bubbles here 🤓
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@symbiotech
It's day 1902 of @balajis.eth Farcaster journey!
@balajis.eth has joined Farcaster on Aug 04 2021 20:00 UTC
Their 6th Farcaster birthday is in 289 days
How about you?
MiniApp by @nikolaii.eth 🚀
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@bfg
The easiest way to do this would be onchain, right!
Let’s ignore the amount and just think about future implications … 🤨
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@bfg
Human brain is interesting machine and neuro-science coupled with psychology never sieze to suprise me;
Let's take typical stress and uncertainty reactions;
When your brain can’t predict what happens next, it has two options:
1. Anxiety (amygdala, cortisol, stress)
2. Curiosity (prefrontal cortex, the problem-solving part)
Experts say that you can train yourself toward the second one. That is a good thing for anyone in business and life in general - take dating, job hunting, client hunting, networking ...😇
h/t to Anne-Laure Le Cunff for reminding me
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@bfg
Not sure why founders or corporate headhunters are surprised that people (including me) care about:
- brand
- storytelling
- distribution channels
- taste you showcase
- company identity
- founder voice and integrity
before they even take the call or job offer 🤔
I feel that's the way it should be ... 🙏
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@bfg
Good reminder I regularly read when entering a new industry:
- working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system.
- system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not.
Game theory explains why it's this way if you're interested.
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@bfg
Maybe you already think that starting a business basically means
- building an audience,
- growing a following,
- launching a course,
- monetizing content,
- selling affiliate products, or
- becoming a personal brand.
and it is the only way 😱 but luckily it's not!
There are tremendous businesses being built based on human IRL referrals, personal networks, and real life reputation (not the same as online reputation).
So don't despair - there's another way 😉
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@bfg
The Lens: I try to use for everything — expertise without distribution is a hobby with extra steps.
That applies to a personal brand, SaaS project, router company, a Web3 protocol, a consulting business, a body, or a five-year-old's education.
Am I right? 😇
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@bfg
The goal isn't to sell (tools, subscriptions, gadgets)
The goal is to SOLVE PROBLEMs for your clients/users.
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@bfg
Your business - project - or you
need to transform during running all daily operations.
That's why every advice seems easy - because it never accounted for that.
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