The Entrepreneurs Journal
The Entrepreneurs Journal
Jacob Zinn
I'm currently participating in a startup accelerator. At the end of each day I will share my key takeaways and an overview of my progress, dilemmas, and wins for the day.
I’m an idiot
I made the same mistake again. Always try to kill your idea as fast as possible.
Nov 30, 2022
7 min
8 hours in the “war room”
I'm not even sure spending this much time with people is effective, but today was definitely interesting.
Nov 29, 2022
3 min
Estimating timeframes
Optimistic people are bad at estimating how long things will take.
Nov 28, 2022
3 min
50 characters or less description
You don't understand your idea if you can't explain it succinctly.
Nov 27, 2022
4 min
Team dynamic and high output
Gotta keep people happy
Nov 26, 2022
6 min
Search to answer questions, not to "explore"
Learning quickly is crucial. When trying to learn in order to solve problems, ensure that you start with a well formulated question. Exploration without an explicit question in mind is far less effective.
Nov 10, 2022
4 min
Show, don't tell
Investors, clients, and everyone else you share your idea with have one thing in common: they want you to show them your project. Telling them about it doesn't have quite the same effect.
Nov 9, 2022
5 min
Entrepreneurial blindness - I can’t believe I missed that
It's a real thing. I think I may have fallen too much in love with the idea.
Nov 3, 2022
10 min
Looking at the big picture
Trying to take a step back and analyze the situation from a bird's eye view.
Nov 3, 2022
7 min
No progress is no fun
No outstanding progress was made today. This realization should be incredibly rare, or how could we succeed?
Oct 26, 2022
5 min
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