The Startup Lifecycle
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Founder's Field Guide
⚡ Speed of learning beats speed of building
💸 Revenue is the only vanity-proof metric
🧲 Distribution beats product, usually
🔁 Retention > Acquisition, always
🧠 Hire for slope, not just intercept
🗣️ Talk to customers every single week
🔥 Default alive > default dead
🏔️ Moats compound; features don't