Yep… that’s me on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”
3 months ago
When something really shitty happens we try not to take it personally, figuring that tomorrow is another day.
- Mike Hudack
While I promised them I wouldn’t say here what they’re doing, I can tell you that it fits perfectly with what they’ve already done. They’re going to have an unfair advantage in building it because their current users already want it, it aligns with their brand, it matches their skill set as a team, and it fits the the general vision they sold to their investors. And yet, it’s not some trivial optimization. It’s a 15 degree pivot that allows them to leverage their earlier work for a much bigger opportunity. It’s a veer.
from Jason Freedman’s awesome article on pivots including Speakergram’s recent pivot veer.
How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a developer
Very interesting advice from Eric Stromberg particularly “When I was searching for a startup job I got some good advice: Any startup job you find on a job board will be one you don’t want.”
How To Sustain Momentum After Startup Success
I particularly like the quote: “We see a lot of startups that feel as though the first taste of success is the finish line. In reality, that’s when the hard part begins!”
Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.
From Mark Suster’s excellent “9 women can’t make a baby in a month” article.
People who build companies to flip are essentially base jumping without a parachute
Great talk about getting started and dealing with the Chicken-and-Egg adoption problem by Brian Chesky of AirBnB.
I particularly like Paul Graham’s advice to AirBnB: “Go to your users!”.
As I was just lamenting with a fellow startup-focused MBA classmate, our Twitter streams are making us very envious of everyone at SXSW (particularly during a morning spent learning about multiple regression).
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