Don't write 1,000 words a day 🙅‍♀️ - (StartupWatching #155)

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A great read from Justin Jackson on the challenges of bootstrapping and about the potential need to raise some money. While the story he tells about Basecamp taking investment is a little skewed (Basecamp was already hugely successful before that happened) his point is valid. Taking money helped bring them piece of mind. Does that make them a purely bootstrapped company anymore?

The way designers and developers work together today is broken. It’s too siloed and separate; “collaboration” is a fantasy that few enjoy. So Dan Mall and Brad Frost recorded a two hour long video going into detail about their process and how they collaborate.

In this case study from Hiten Shah and Product Habits they dive into the success of Box, the enterprise cloud storage company that took the world by storm. They go over how box mastered enterprise sales and became a $1.7 billion company in a decade.

A really solid article by Teresa Torres on re-framing the way you think about validating ideas. It gets a little ramble-y in the middle, but the point is important. Find ways to get customer feedback every single week, not once you’re finished with major updates. But make sure you ask for feedback in the right way.

Amy Hoy writes about how self-destructive it can be to try to force yourself to work constantly, or hit certain benchmarks. You shouldn’t write to write 1,000 words a day. You should write because it enables you to do the thing that fulfills you, that brings you joy. But first you have to look inward and understand what that thing is.