My quick notes to add for my future me—
7. Weigh a global-first mindset vs a local mindset. Community should start small. Reach should be global.
8. Find your community and mentors and others who are thinking and passionate about the same thing.
9. Don’t be charming but useless

5. Thinking about a problem or customer’s need you’ve never heard before but makes perfect sense once you hear it
6. It should solve a problem today, not in the distant future

3. Novel technology can deliver on the company mission, but also has the infrastructure and platform to support it
4. Leadership should not be dogmatic about what the solution looks like and is willing to adapt to the customers’ needs

1. Creating a product/service that’s completely new; competitors cannot copy or understand
2. Solves a real problem, pain point, something that customers experiences daily, with an existing/large market