Founders bootcamp

Cannot do it alone
Entrepreneurship is a mental performance
- Manage your sleep
- Understand the opportune time to take action
  - What are the key outcomes?
  - How would I feel about this decision?
    - Must live with your decision, no need to always rush for money
What you believe can and will happen
- Share what you want to do aloud
- By sharing your ideas, you test your theory with other’s bias
Understand how people feel before you understand how they work
- Practice empathy ![[0 Z6kwnNVbKMeWalOm.png|400]]
[[Radical Candor]] = Care Personally + Challenge Directly, At the Same Time
- Be more than just “professional”, build personal relationships
- “It’s not mean, it’s clear!”
  - Not an excuse to be a dickhead
- Get Feedback
  - Ask a specific question, not “do you have any feedback”
    - Cannot be answered with a yes/no
  - Embrace the discomfort
  - Listen with the intent to understand, not respond
  - Reward the candor.
- Give Feedback
  - Praise > Criticism
    - However don’t avoid the bad stuff
  - Humble, Helpful, Immediate, Synchronously (no email/text - phone or in person)
  - Criticize in private, Praise in public
  - Don’t address another’s personality, specific to
- Gauge Feedback
  - Pay attention to how a person reacts
  - Sometimes you may be wrong, be open to feedback
[[QSBS]]
You need to start a problem that you are experiencing, or a problem which you are passionate about