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  • Essential tip #1. No customer cares what you do, only what they get. They’re not buying the reverse engineering, they’re buying the copy. Let that inform your choices, your marketing and interactions with the customer.

    Tip for B2B especially. Listen to the person and treat them as a professional, find ways to explain limitations and options in a way that makes them feel understood and that helps them look good in their own organisation. In another phrasing: Make them the Hero of their company, and you’ll be theirs.

    Word of advice: Enjoy the ride! Business isn’t difficult, but it’s tough, there’s so very very very many things you now have to get done there’s no reasonable chance at foreseeing even most of them. You will get surprises, you will get crises. Get as much help and mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs as you can (we’re typically a very helpful bunch), but prepare for even that not being enough.

    Perseverance, responsiveness, and resourcefulness is what separates you from the 80% failed businesses within 5 years.








  • Unrelated question. How do you structure power dynamics with neurospicy partners?

    Maybe my issue is that I enjoy playing with the dynamic itself, having been living 24/7 for a long time I feel compelled to relax and reassert power imbalance as a natural part of our relationship, but that contrast seems confusing for my ASD partners. And my most used tool of tying it to contexts or other consistent markers doesn’t seem to work well with the ADD/ADHD, as they seem to not remember/notice the clues the way I’ve come to expect from NTs.

    (I, as typical, don’t have any significant issues with other flavors of neurospiciness)

    I’m a little stumped for the ASD partners. Should I maybe make a more pronounced transition (like a ritual at start+end), tie it to specific contexts (like at home, or in the bedroom) with exceptions (for sickness and bad days), or do you have any other ideas?

    For the ADHD I guess I could probably make the markers more pronounced and establish them with higher levels of dopamine and emotion. And I guess clearer framing (rituals/rules as mentioned above) will also help.

    Do you have any suggestions or resources you’d recommend?

    Also, we should normalise using Au/DHD for referring to only those sorts of spiciness :p