If you are somewhere between a lifestyle business and a VC funded monopoly, you should reconsider your funding strategy and try building a real business instead.

— Real Businesses by Bryce Roberts

However, it is so easy to forget the rule everyone was taught before they met Scrum or had ever heard the expression MVP: that until people trust each other, none of it matters.

— First things first, Trust each other by Benji Portwin

A design studio isn’t an assembly line business. As such, the approaches used in building one or the other aren’t necessarily transferable. Early on in our business, someone told me to, “work on our business—not in it.”

— So, You’re Starting a Design Studio? by Eric Karjaluoto

Without a clear point of view on what makes you different, it’s easy to wander. Especially in the software industry. New feature requests come in every day, and if you can’t say “no”, who knows where on the map you’ll land.

— Position, position, position by Ryan Singer