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 bummed out when your stock price drops. I believe the emotions follow the +1/-5 rule. Each time it goes up, you get one unit of happiness. Each time it goes down, you get -5 units of happiness. ...
Techstars is rolling out a short video program with some of the entrepreneurs and mentors favorite quotes. I recorded a few of them recently – my first one is up. I’m a huge Battlestar Galactica fan and think Commander William Adama has amazing leadership lessons for any entrepreneur. If you don’t know what “rolling the hard six ” is, it’s a classic example of a high risk / high reward scenario. Per Urban Dictionary: ...