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Andrew Gazdecki

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11 months

Startups and technology moves fast.

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Apple WWDC every year: "Rest in peace to like 1000+ startups."

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2 years

Your job as CEO of a startup is to hire generalists to build and then hire specialists to scale. Pretty simple.

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10 months

Happy 4th of July! Only in America!

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1 year

Your main job as a startup founder or employee right now is to figure out how to get OpenAI to do 90% of your work for you and still get paid.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

Most startups would probably grow faster if they just held 80% less meetings.

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Before you build a startup write down… 1. The customer 2. Their problems 3. Current solutions 4. Your solution 5. Why now 6. Why you The last two are most important. Market timing and founder fit.

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Startups are built by generalists and scaled by specialists. Pretty simple.

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2 years

Your goal as CEO of a startup should be to fire yourself from all key roles by hiring people smarter than you.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 months

This is hilarious. “We’re tech CEOs.”

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your job as CEO is to hire people way smarter than you at your startup then give them clear direction, autonomy, goals, appreciation, and dark mode.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

What building a startup feels like.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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7 months

This is hilarious and also why startups should never hire MBA consultants who have never built a company before.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your startup just needs to solve one problem really well, not 50.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Bill Gates founded Microsoft at 19. Evan Spiegel founded Snapchat at 22. Mullenweg founded WordPress at 19. Whitney Wolfe founded Bumble at 25. Zuckerberg founded Facebook at 19. It's never too late to build a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Build your startup with generalists. Scale your startup with specialists.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startups needs a Chief Storytelling Officer and ideally this is the founder.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

If you think Twitter sucks try LinkedIn.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

Forget hiring the smartest people. Focus on building a team that avoids drama, trusts each other, communicates frequently, clear on goals, truly makes each other better, and gets shit done.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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11 months

Sleep for 8 hours. Work for 8 hours. That’s only 16 hours out of 24. You still have another 10 hours to execute more on your startup's marketing, product, distribution, and sales strategy. Time is not the issue.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your goal as CEO of a startup should be to build a team that can completely run the entire company without you.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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8 days

This is how you spot an entrepreneur.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

The “get shit done” founder beats the “perfectly planned strategy” founder 100% of the time in startups.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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6 months

Every entrepreneur should watch this. Building a startup ain’t easy but its worth it.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

BREAKING: large companies execute slower than startups due to meetings about meetings about how to have more meetings about meetings.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startup ideas are worth zero. Execution is worth millions. Dark mode is worth billions.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Before you write a line of code for your startup idea write down… 1. The customer 2. Their problems 3. Current solutions 4. Your solution 5. Why now 6. Why you The last two are most important. Market timing and founder fit.

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2 years

The most important skill for startup founders is sales. It’s 90% of the job.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Please stop overthinking everything and launch your startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Every billion dollar startup began with zero revenue, zero funding, zero press, zero customers. Keep going.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

I’m happy to inform you that you don’t need a business plan or anyone’s permission to launch a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Bet on yourself and launch a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Time is the most valuable asset in the world. Build a startup that saves people time and you’ll go far.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Invest in yourself and build a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Don’t fall in love with a startup idea, fall in love with a problem to solve.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Your job as CEO of a startup is to overcommunicate everything about your company's strategy often because your team can’t read your mind.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

“Tesla has zero marketing” is a terrible reason for your startup to have zero marketing.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Steve Jobs once said “the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.” Brand and storytelling is what makes startups successful, not buzzwords and features.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your startup needs revenue not venture capital to survive. This is business 101 not rocket science.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

"Entrepreneurship is living few years of life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't."

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your startup needs just 5 things to be successful: - Solution to a painful problem - Viable business model - Great story to tell - Team that executes - Dark mode

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2 years

Please build that startup you've been thinking about everyday.

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2 years

Being CEO of a startup is so hard and lonely. One day you're on cloud 9 and the next day you're losing your shit over nothing. Shout out to all the crazy ones that choose this path and have learned to love the ride.

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2 years

90% of startups fail 10% of founders don’t give up

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"Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the plane on the way down. - Reid Hoffman

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2 years

Your job as CEO of a startup is to build a world class team and give them lots of autonomy over their work. No one likes to be micro-managed.

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2 years

Nothing wrong with being a solo-founder because 65% of startups fail due to cofounder conflicts.

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1 year

Friendly reminder that startups with a better product lose often to startups with better distribution, brand, marketing, storytelling, and sales.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Make people laugh with your startups marketing. No one remembers a boring brand.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your job as CEO of a startup is to be the Chief Storyteller and the brand ambassador sharing your company’s story every chance you get.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Friendly reminder that startup ideas are worth zero and execution is worth millions.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Startup founders are usually generalists. Good at lots of things, great at nothing.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Friendly reminder your job as CEO of a startup is to recruit a team of generalists to build and then recruit a team of specialists to scale.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

You don’t need to build a billion dollar startup to be successful. If you’re happy and able to pay your bills you’ve won the game. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Stripe not first in online payments. Zoom not first in video conference. Slack not first in team communication. MicroAcquire not first in acquisitions. Spotify not first in music streaming. First mover advantage is usually a disadvantage for startups.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Startup founder 2-years in when you ask how things are going.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Your startup should focus on solving just one problem really well, not 50.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

If you don’t own at least 500+ domains for random startup ideas are you really an entrepreneur?

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startups are a “get shit done” game not a “perfect plan strategy” game.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Friendly reminder your startups product will be copied but your culture, brand, story, vision, and customer experience cannot be copied.

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1 year

@elonmusk This is awesome, any chance to secure handles that go unused?

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2 years

Year 1: this startup will never work. Year 2: holy shit we have customers. Year 3: this startup will never work. Year 4: holy shit we're growing fast. Year 5: this startup will never work. Please just keep going.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Build a startup that makes something easier, something cheaper, something time saving, ideally all of the above.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Build a startup around a problem you’ve personally experienced for customers you understand and you’ll go farther than 99% of entrepreneurs.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Don't build an app, solve a problem manually, then scale it with software.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startup idea: read competitor reviews and just fix all the stuff customers complain about plus add dark mode.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

One of your main jobs as a startup founder is chief storytelling officer.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

Startup job descriptions should really just say “your role will change every week and without notice”.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

I recommend being a “get shit done” startup founder rather than a “perfectly planned strategy” founder because speed wins.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startup founders please learn sales & storytelling. Basically the whole job.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

2 guys created a $600,000 ARR SaaS company without ever meeting in person. Here’s how it happened:

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2 years

I hope in 2022 you finally stop buying domains for random startup ideas.

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2 years

To be a solo startup founder you gotta have a really crazy high pain threshold.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Every startup needs a Chief Storytelling Officer today. Ideally this is always the founder.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

90% of startups fail 10% of entrepreneurs don’t give up

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Bootstrapping a startup is playing the game on the hardest mode possible.

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2 years

You can build a multi-million dollar startup from anywhere in the world today from a laptop in your boxers.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startup idea: build an audience and a community before building a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

If you’re good at sales please build a startup or launch some business, it’s literally 90% of the entire job.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Steve Jobs was once quoted as saying "Half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is pure perseverance." So please keep going through the good times, the bad times, celebrate every win, always be learning, improve daily, and play the long game.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

Entrepreneurs helping other entrepreneurs succeed is what the startup game is all about.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

Build a startup around a problem you’ve experienced first hand.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Startup founders who are great at sales and marketing will win the next decade because building the best product simply isn't enough anymore.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Startup founders are usually good at everything but great at nothing. Most are generalists not specialists.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

No one is going to steal your startup idea so please just start sharing it for feedback and out execute everyone.

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2 years

Not a startup strategy I recommend.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

This is how you build a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Raising millions for your startup isn’t really an accomplishment but generating millions in revenue is.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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1 year

Build an audience and community before building a startup.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Things needed to a launch startup... - Laptop - Internet - Lots of grit - Willing to fail That’s about it.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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3 years

If you have just a few paying customers, you’re doing better than 99% of startups.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

You can learn so much about startups, entrepreneurship, investing, marketing, sales, and more on Twitter. Basically a free $1,000,000 MBA. Here's 28 accounts to follow:

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

If you aren’t sure how to build a startup, join one and get paid to learn.

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7 months

Every startup founder needs to watch this.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

Please stop celebrating huge fundraising rounds for startups and instead celebrate revenue milestones.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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Startup ideas without execution are worth exactly zero.

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Play the long game and have patience. Startups take decades to build.

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Andrew Gazdecki

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2 years

I’m sorry to inform but you if you just build a great product, customers will not just randomly find your startup.

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1 year

Hey @elonmusk I’ll pay Twitter $20k for the suspended and unused @acquire handle for my startup @acquiredotcom . It’s just sitting there. I’ll put it to good use! Let me be your first customer for the upcoming handles marketplace. Got Russ Hanneman to pitch this to you.

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Being CEO of a startup is a tough & lonely job so please surround yourself with other founders, mentors, and most importantly a team that believes.

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