The Next Founder Table of Contents
The Next Founder is designed to help startup founders build successful companies and stay healthy and sane while doing it. Please see the overview in Welcome to Uninvent and links to past and future chapters in Uninvent Table of Contents.
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1. Start Where You Are — Or why you should embrace where you are since you can’t be anywhere else.
2. Know What You Believe — Or why belief is the engine that powers your startup.
3. Start Out the Right Way — Or why so much of your startup’s fate is sealed right when you start it.
4. Ignore the Noise — Or why distractions, excuses, and haters don’t matter.
5. Embrace Contradiction — Or why you shouldn’t seek simple explanations and easy answers.
6. Choose Abundance — Or why a leap of faith can land you in a pile of cash.
7. Grasp Why You Get Paid — Or why if you make it big, it won’t be for the reasons you think.
8. Be a Learn it All — Or why you’re back in school but with no graduation party.
9. Be the Adult in the Room — Or why it’s disorienting to look up and see no one there.
10. Load Up On the Free Things — Or why money is no excuse when you aren’t even doing the free things.
11. Train like a Startup Athlete — Or why your startup deserves the higher performance version of you.
12. Unmask Imposter Syndrome — Or why our greatest critic lives rent-free in our heads.
13. Gaze Into the Abyss — Or why, if you gaze into the abyss, some answers might gaze back.
14. Embrace the Grind — Or why winning comes from the day in day out grind
15. Don’t Blow Up - Or why you carry the seeds of your startup’s destruction within you.
16. Build a Talent Magnet — Or why you can only hire great people if you build something they want to join.
17. Learn to Part Ways — Or why some people need to leave if you want the right people to stay.
18. Master the One-on-One — Or why you should learn to use your startup’s steering wheel.
19. Learn the Ladder — Or why a ladder can help avoid chaos.
20. Pay People the Right Way — Or why it’s expensive to pay people too much or too little.
21. Do Hard Work — Or why much of the work you do is probably a waste of time.
22. Show Respect — Or why if you’d rather be liked than respected, you’ll end up with neither.
23. Budget the Stress — Or why stress, like any other currency, should be invested wisely.
24. Talk Hard — Or why difficult conversations make everything easier.
25. Seek Different — Or why you won’t build anything different if everyone is the same.
26. Know When to Overrule — Or why you have the master the core dilemma of management.
27. Explore Personality — Or why you can get the best out of people when you’re curious what makes them tick.
28. Delegate Til It Hurts — Or why, as special as you are, you aren’t as special as you think.
29. Break the Curse of Knowledge — Or why your team might have no idea what you are talking about.
30. Build your Operating System — Or why if you want your company to run like a machine, you need an operating system.
31. Uninvent Big Companies - Or why the best way to build a big company is not to act like one.
32. Plan, Plan, Replan — Or why planning gets things done and getting things done makes good plans.
33. Build a See Through Startup — Or why an abundance mentality for sharing information causes abundance.
34. Decide to Decide — Or why you have to get great at the most important thing that startups do.
35. Curate Your Culture — Or why culture is both nebulous and tangible.
36. Tell Stories — Or why you can get people excited about your company by simply telling your story.
37. Work Backwards — Or why when you want to move forward, you need to work backwards.
38. Hold a Town Hall — Or why gathering the company together keeps you from coming apart.
Epilogue: Life Goes On - You’ll be a different person when your startup end. Be a better one.