Best Tweets about building startups

If you’re a solo founder the good news is that you don't need to beat your competitors to succeed but just capture a really small slice of the market.

No joke, every immigrant founder I’ve ever met is an absolute badass.

As a founder, your job description changes every few months - depends on how fast your startup is growing.

If you’re a founder the only new year’s resolution I want to hear from you is “I want to get better at marketing” 🙂

When I worked at a startup, I used to hate it when Sales promised features the dev team had no time to deliver. Now that I'm a bootstrapped founder I have no one to hate but myself 🙃

Tech and marketing co founders are the deadliest combination for any startup.

The only 3 skills you need to be a successful founder are: 1. Knowing what product to make 2. Knowing how to build it 3. Knowing how to sell it

Real startup founders hate competing, doesn't mean they aren't ambitious. It doesn't make sense to compete with others when there are so many opportunities out there.

Important part of being a startup founder is saying “we’re just getting started” over and over for a decade.

Short list of the jobs startup founders do all at the same time. - VP Engineering - VP Sales - VP Product - VP Customer Support - VP Marketing - VP Operations - Legal - Human Resources - Public Relations - Head of Content - CFO - Janitor

Startup founders should prioritize mental health over 'growth at all costs'.

A founder's biggest asset is a co-founder who is also highly motivated.

If your family doesn't think you're crazy, are you even a startup founder?

Own a business or be owned by a business.

The best way to learn about yourself is to start a business.

Entrepreneurship is a great way to improve the world while also improving yourself.

$1m ARR 🥳 Tomorrow will be 6 months since our Twitter launch Ask me anything about my startup journey

People still haven't realized that working a job you hate is a thousand times harder than starting a business.

Skills every startup founder should have —> Sales —> Focus —> Curiosity —> Networking —> Ability to learn —> Communication —> Business Strategy What more would you add ?

2020 mini review: Was supposed to start a T-shirt company. Ended up launching 2x SaaS, a theme business, a productised service and a host. And I went deep into Ghost. My most productive and successful year yet.

you don't need to take money from a VC to start a company you can't learn to be an entrepreneur in school you don't need permission to start

So once you open your own business, are you supposed to put Founder/CEO in my bio? Asking for a friend 💁🏻‍♂️

There’s never been a better time to start a company.

Large part of being a startup founder is making decisions really fast with really limited information.

Entrepreneurship is the ultimate independence.

Every startup says they want an exceptional team but most don’t actually want it enough to pay what exceptional people are worth.

In startup land bootstrapping a company to profitability without investors is like playing the game on the hardest mode possible.

YC might ask for 7% of my company if they knew how many of their Startup School videos I've watched on YouTube.

Entrepreneurship is equally as stressful as it is rewarding. Give yourself permission to disconnect.

I have a startup joke, it's called "Profit making startups" 🤣🤣

As an entrepreneur It's you VS Thousands of competitors, with millions and billions of dollars behind them. BUT, there is something you have, that they don't a competitive advantage that you need to recognize and capitalize on ASAP Let me explain...

Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. Constant rollercoaster of highs and lows. Still wouldn’t trade it for anything else.

10 of my founder friends are forces of nature. Their startups are now worth $400M+ each. 4 behaviors I've observed:

In startups (and in life), it’s never too late to pivot unless the game is over

Startup founders: VCs are not your customer.

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone and startups are hard, but if you're going to work for decades with the permanent risk of being laid off arbitrarily, why not work for yourself instead of making someone else rich?

Entrepreneurship is hard. Settling is harder.

Common misconception: joining a startup = fewer mentors & less exposure to executives In reality, the entire ecosystem opens up to you — investors, peers at other companies + execs at later stage startups want to help It’s building together vs. learning by sitting in meetings

Entrepreneurship is fucking hard. The early excitement of building a team, choosing a name, launching the first version will fade away. And insane details will begin to emerge. At that point, there is only one thing that will help. The stories you tell yourself.

The greatest moment of my startup was on the day we sold, when I reached out to two of our earliest investors who asked for their money back: I sent them a breakdown of how much money they would’ve made.