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@dwr.eth
A common fallacy I see on Farcaster wrt startups: if you've raised a large round, you can do more stuff with your startup, hire a team dedicated to X, etc. After a certain threshold of funding, the limited resource is focus. Adding more people to do more stuff quickly dilutes focus.
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Fair point, maybe its an old fashion view of what a large funding round is for. Focus needs to be paramount as its what enables the start up to thrive. That all being said, isn't the point of the funding to scale? No one puts that kind of money into the start up to maintain the current rate of productivity. Its generally to accelerate growth. Hiring an outside team is definitely an option, but that can be as much of a erosion of focus as growing your core team. Internal growth is hard, for sure. It pulls focus, but the long term benefits on productivity when done properly is hard to ignore
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Lack of focus is the killer for the majority of startups I’ve had an inside view on. You always need to be more focused than you think, and it’s the founders’ job to provide that focus.
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Radically under appreciated perspective.
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how do you balance focus vs itch to try something new thats adjacent in the idea maze? It's especially tricky & important to be experimental in rapidly growing web3 markets unless you're a founder who believes fundamentally in a single long term direction..
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How do you measure focus? Is there one or two chart types that are good for visualizing focus?
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@justbuild
@dwr.eth I totally get what you were talking about here related to focus and dilution, instead of just letting people doing something additive as a "full time job". Don't need a reply to this, just had a "ahhhhhh" and wanted to close out the thought. Thanks man. https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xd9f4b25afcf8ccb87bb85514b85140da77cb6087/74
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totally agree. resource constraint for startups is a feature not a bug. learn to work the best out of it.
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True . Luke @pixels built pixels with a team of less than 10 people up until it's token launched on binance
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Another related question is if Warpcast can be run with a few people and offer all these functions and possibilities, what exactly are thousands of people at Twitter or Meta doing? 😹
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It seems like you’re addressing a common fallacy among startups that getting a lot of funding automatically translates into success by hiring more people and growing quickly. In reality, having too much funding can actually lead to a loss of focus as resources are spread thin across multiple initiatives. It’s important for startups to prioritize focus and ensure that resources are used efficiently to achieve their core goals.
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@infinitehomie
More people you add the more money you lose one would think. I assume that is the reason behind staying lean?
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Interesting point, How do you think startups can balance expanding their team with maintaining that critical focus
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is this about people asking you to hire a marketing team😂
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People believe that raising a large amount of funding allows a startup to take on more projects. However, the message emphasizes that beyond a certain point money isn't the primary constraint-focus is. company tries to do, the harder it becomes to maintain clear direction
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doesn’t make it a fallacy then, cos you can do all those things with funding, large rounds or not, focus is necessary. Not a fallacy tho
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Actually But does this still defeat the purpose of working together but still maintaining intense focus?
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Makes sense, but curious what FC will invest in with the capital? (or probably it is secret 🤐)
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