Brutal Honesty Delivered Kindly
In yesterday’s post Mentors 4/18: Be Direct. Tell The Truth, However Hard, Joah Spearman left a very powerful comment about empathy. “The older I get the more I realize that truth
Entrepreneurship
Capital Is Cheap And Labor Is Expensive
I was on an airplane for the first time for business in a while and when I woke up from my nap I found my self staring at CNBC on
What Should You Do When Someone Rips Off Your Site Design
I recently received the following email. I am in a bit of a dilemma and would really appreciate any insight you all have on what to do. Last month, my team
How Can This Be A Billion Dollar Company?
I was in the bathroom this morning catching up on all the blogs (via Feedly) that I hadn’t read this week since my head was in a bunch of other
How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?
Every single day I have multiple conversations and emails from CEOs and people at companies I work with about how to work with Big Tech Companies. You know – Google,
After Failure, What's Next?
Recently, I wrote a post titled After Your First Big Success, What’s Next? The comment thread was powerful and fascinating, as was the direct email feedback I got, including the following note:
After Your First Big Success, What's Next?
As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I refer to this moment as
I Am Not My Stock Price
If you are an founder or employee of a public company, repeat after me: “I am not my stock price.” This is one of my favorite Jeff Bezos quotes. It’s easily to get
Book: Things A Little Bird Told Me
There will be a lot of books written about the story of Twitter. As far as I know, there have now been two, but there are probably 71 more coming
Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
If you haven’t yet bought Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, go get it right now. It’s one of