3 dispatches
It is hard to find good analogies for running a startup that founders can learn from. Some of the typical comparisons — playing competitive sports & games, working on large projects, running large organizations — all fall short of capturing the feeling that the odds are stacked against you that founders have to grapple with.
So, you watched Silicon Valley and read some articles on Techcrunch and you envision yourself as a startup CEO 🤑. What does it take to succeed? Great engineering skills? Salesmanship? Financial acumen? As someone who has been on both sides of the table (as a venture investor and on multiple startup executive leadership teams), there are three — and only three — things a...
It me. (Source: They Can Talk) I’ve been reading a lot of year-end/decade-end reflections (as one does this time of year) — and while a part of me wanted to #humblebrag about how I got a 🏠/💍/👶🏻 this decade 😇 — I thought it would be more interesting & profound to instead call out 10 worldviews & beliefs I had going into the 2010s that I no longer hold. 1.