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founders.menu 009: confirmation bias, 15 reads & 15 streams added.

Understand confirmation bias, access 30x new reads & streams in the database, and dive into some AI hardware founder news.

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Julian Paul
March 03, 2024

Servus & happy Sunday. ☼

Read time this week → 3.3 minutes.

A warm welcome to 9x new subscribers who got a BOOTSTRAP OS/Ideapad product or signed up directly for the founders.menu newsletter. ☻

This is your weekly menu with a mental model, curated founders.menu resources, top founder news of the week, and the latest early.tools delivered to your inbox – so you can take better action & build more momentum.

Starter » a mental model

Confirmation Bias ↓

In the words of Francis Bacon (1700s English philosopher and statesman): “it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”

This rather simple venn daigram says it all… As Founders, we are prone to the type of thinking that coincides with our Vision the most, since any information we get that confirms with our beliefs, is where we ought to go, no? Wrong. At the very least we should always try to see where the facts coincide with our beliefs and ideally move completely towards an unbiased fact-based worldview.

One could say the Founder’s journey is all about moving towards a rational worldview that does not aim to impose our own beliefs, but rather aims to uncover the shared beliefs of a niche. AKA: product-market fit.

Ponder this → where are you forcing your soft beliefs rather than interpreting the feedback for hard facts?

Main course » founders.menu update

Introducing ䷀ Reads & ⦿ Streams with 15x items added to the database for each. About 40% of these new items are locked for premium members. This is quality content, mostly in the Idea → Concept as well as Concept → MVP stage. If you are stuck in either of these, an article or stream might give you exactly what you need to get unstuck – give it a try → founders.menu

Today, the curation reached 548 items & we are far from being done… I also took some time this week to clarify the early pricing and would love to welcome you as a full member – the earlier you join, the better the deal. ↓

What’s next? Check public.founders.menu for the latest updates.

Desert » past week’s founder news

[1] Carl Peid, Founder of nothing.tech launched an exclusive first look of the Phone (2a). The company also did an employee video with mixed of first leaks.

[2] Jerry Yue, Founder of brain.ai launched the first mobile phone without apps alongside the CEO of Deutsche Telekom Tim Höttges – a personalised AI.

[3] Jessie Chen, a Threads Engineer is working to open an API in June. Considering app downloads tripled, might this nudge 𝕏 to open up their API again?

[4] Lucas Rantzau launched founder.site one month ago & already gained 500 users since then. The product is a LinkTree for Founders – early yearly plans get -40% — I already got founder.site/julian!

[5] Liam McCabe, Founder of layers.to launched on ProductHunt this week and got first place. A big step to recognize the new home for designers contending Dribbble’s platform MOAT.

Sides » this week on early.tools

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Final thoughts

Prototyping is an integral part of the MVP process as we all know. This angle (re)shared by Tidjane is a great reminder of the pros & cons of both high & low-fidelity prototypes. Take the type of feedback you might be getting from prospects in either case with a pinch of salt… use sound judgment always.

And that’s it for this week. Thank you so much for reading this far. If you know anyone who might like this newsletter as much as you, why not forward them this issue via Email? It would mean the world… ↱

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See you around. ☻

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