Recently I caught up with an old friend and colleague. My friend is one of the most competent, smartest, and hard-working executives I know. He is also one of the most principled.
"Excellence is not about balance, it's about extremes." I can't find the source of this quote now, but I think it was Tom Peters quoting someone else.
You need to raise funding for your startup, so your friends start introducing you to investors – angels, venture capitalists, and so on. After a few weeks and a number of conversations later, you get a term sheet. You think it’s a low-ball offer. So you turn it down.
The purpose of a startup is not to make a lot of money. The purpose of a startup is to find a repeatable, scalable, and profitable way to make a lot of money.
Many CEOs asked me if they can actually locate their engineering and product teams here and expect the same level of quality they get in the Valley. My simple answer is: absolutely.
My passion for understanding leadership began long before I incorporated by first startup. At the global level, for understanding how the one right leader can move entire economies.
A new generation of tech entrepreneurs from around the world have opportunities not available to previous generations. The democratization of entrepreneurship is a new phenomenon that will change the global tech landscape.
“You can’t have kids and run a startup.” That made me do some deep introspection. Was I doing a disservice to my startup since I was now a father?
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