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David Fernández's avatar

Great post!

I’m curious about number 15. Why do you advise against B2C?

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John Rush's avatar

thx,

b2c is 100x riskier than b2b.

you either make a billion or nothing in most cases.

in b2b it's more realistic to grow your biz to 1M ARR and call it a success.

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Cihad's avatar

"11. Invest all your money into yourself and your friends.

I did some math; if I kept investing all my money into all my friends’ startups, I'd be worth $100M+ by now." How much is it now? :D

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John Rush's avatar

my holdco is around $120M

but most growth happened recently

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Cihad's avatar

Hi John, I have a lowcode plugin in Figma. (https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1322547887505969963) It helps to turn a Figma design into a web app. What's your view on the future of these tools? Especially with the rise of AI, do you think our job is a little bit jeopardized?

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Vivek's avatar

you have shared grate information who want to start Build. i like number 9. Sell features, before building them. which is true

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Antoni Nabzdyk's avatar

Great read - but one question: do you consider an app for investors a b2b or b2c

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John Rush's avatar

b2b

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Karo (Product with Attitude)'s avatar

Great post, thank you for sharing John!

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Soroucsh's avatar

Interesting notes! Thanks for sharing them.

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Jos T's avatar

So much resonates here! What did you adopt instead of scrum?

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John Rush's avatar

tiny teams(1-2 person) working towards the goal (next release).

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Jos T's avatar

Yeah, I used metrics/KPIs and made goals --> directions. "Get this ship bearing north!"

And then tried to push changes often, get results just as fast, and pivot as needed. And keep spinning as few plates as possible -- a narrower focus always outperformed a broad one for me -- being careful to shift my attention as needed. After a while I found a rhythm of hitting big important small things early each month, larger projects mid-month, and things like data review/bookkeeping/legal/tech debt/strategy that last week.

Thanks for the post! All the greatest successes to you!

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André's avatar

Great post. very inspiring and straight forward

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Nevada's avatar

Insightful! Thanks very much !!! Especially Number 15… thank you for sharing !

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John Rush's avatar

welcome

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