Chapter 4

Does founder thinking just mean taking more risks?

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The chapter's question

What mindset and habits separate startup founders from traditional business owners?

Big idea

Startup founders solve big problems, think in platforms, design for scale, and embrace uncertainty as fuel for discovery.

In this chapter

  1. Part 4.1

    Solve Big Problems

    Is the estimated market for the problem you are solving above or below 100 million dollars?

  2. Part 4.2

    Think in Platforms

    In your product, which users create value for other users, or are you the only one creating value?

  3. Part 4.3

    Design for Scale

    If users grew 100 times tomorrow, which 3 parts of your business would break first?

  4. Part 4.4

    The Startup Mindset

    What small experiment can you run this week, and what result would make you change your mind?

The reading for this chapter is inside Conan School

This chapter has 4 readings, with case stories and exercises. Chapter 1 of Startup Thinking - How Startups Are Fundamentally Different From Traditional Businesses is free to read right here.

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Chapters of Startup Thinking - How Startups Are Fundamentally Different From Traditional Businesses

  1. 1.Is a startup just a small business?
  2. 2.Does careful planning help a startup?
  3. 3.Do startups survive on ideas, or fast experiments?
  4. 4.Does founder thinking just mean taking more risks?