A Programmer Turned Billionaire Slapped Me in My Face With 51 One-Liner Startup Advice

Read This to Transform Your Mindset

Sanjay Priyadarshi
4 min readDec 30, 2023
Photo by Levi Arnold on Unsplash

Online platforms are filled with flawed startup advice.

When I started reading online, these were some of the advice I got:

  • Quit your job at the start
  • Don’t embrace controversy for publicity
  • Don’t attack the market leader
  • Word-of-mouth will start on its own
  • Chase venture capital and never share your ideas with others

It is frustrating when online guidance doesn’t help us navigate startup challenges.

Let’s cut through the noise and discover the no-nonsense strategies of Marc Benioff, who started Salesforce and built a $230B empire.

  1. Don’t be afraid to take time off when you need it.
  2. If your software could help companies increase productivity or sales by 4–5%, your product is worth a billion dollars.
  3. Each piece of existing software will only be replaced by a new version of the software.
  4. You never know how someone else who listens to your ideas might help you.
  5. Talented new engineers don’t join a founder who can’t…

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