Joshua Schachter

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You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.
- Joshua Schachter
Collection: People
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Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.
- Joshua Schachter
Collection: Business
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If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.
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Collection: Order
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Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.
- Joshua Schachter
Collection: Moving
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Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.
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Collection: Done
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We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.
- Joshua Schachter
Collection: Jobs