Dots and Lines

*About Passion

  You determine the greatness of your accomplishments by the amount of pain you're willing to pay down. 

  Determination is the most important factor in predicting success. even more important than intelligence.

*About Product

The Product:    
        Desirable to customers
        Technically feasible
        Commercially viable

The two laws of building products:
if you can't sell it, don't build it
if you can't build it, don't sell it    

*About Team

The Team: 
    The Designer
    The Architect
    The Developer

Design comes first. it defines what you will build.

The role of the Architect is to choose the tools for the job, and to decide when new tools need to be created.

The role of the developer is to run the wishes of the designer into reality while staying within the constraints that the architect has put forth.

*About Role-Play

**The Dreamer**  **构想者**

口才/ 人缘/ 眼光/ 激情/ 凝聚团队

Skills: public speaking, investor relations, big picture thinking, customer-centric, inspirational. The Dreamer keeps the team, customers and investors emotionally involved in the product and business.

**The Designer** **设计者**

美学/ 艺术品味/为团队注入设计思维

Skills: design thinker, poster artist, illustrator, wireframer. The Designer excels as you build your first brochure and your first prototype.

**The Hacker**  **生产者**

代码/工程/架构/方法论/思路清晰/快速学习：遇到什么样的问题？要怎么样去解决？

Skills: Coder, architect, engineer, scientist, carpenter. The hard skills will differ, but the Hacker needs to know (or quickly learn) everything necessary to build the solution.

**The Hustler** **推广者**

绝对外向/销售策略/成本收益权衡

Skills: pitching, lead generation, cold calling, sales processes and sales management. The Hustler turns your product into money, and will know the ins and outs of sales cycles.

**The Analyst** **分析者**

人性解读/数字敏感/财务分析/市场嗅觉

Skills: solid head for numbers. Possibly coming from finance or a quant role, like business analysis or consultancy.