Essays
Things I've written, organized by what they're trying to say.
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Perpetual Motion Machine of Entrepreneurship
Success begets success, and entrepreneurship perpetuates entrepreneurs.
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It All Changes When The Founder Drives A Porsche
Founders make different decisions when money doesn't matter.
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Working With The Voices In My Head
There is no one harder on me than me.
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Ownership is About Trust
Failure without learning is a loss. Learn something, and it’s a win.
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Choosing the Day I’m Going to Die Has Helped Me Live
Of all the reasons I love my animals, probably the biggest one is that they have provided me the ability to set my death date.
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On Founder Craft 34
- 10 Steps to Being an Ex-CEO
- 10,000 > 1,000,000
- 3 Lessons That Make A Market
- 8 Traits That Make Founders Fundable
- Advisors Stop Screwing Founders
- Big Ideas; Small Communities
- Dark Side of the Curve
- Die, Traction, Die.
- Don’t Lie; You Don’t Care
- Elements of A Startup Ecosystem
- Failing Purposefully
- Founders Are Fixers
- how > who > why > what > when > where.
- How to Take a No
- I Hate Being an Entrepreneur
- Independent Board Members: Why?
- It All Changes When The Founder Drives A Porsche
- It Looks So Easy
- Passion Kills
- Perpetual Motion Machine of Entrepreneurship
- Silicon Valley is Dead
- The Most Important Startup
- The Only Guide to Seed Fundraising You Will Ever Need. Ever. Seriously.
- The Science of Business Development
- The Three Meeting Gambit
- Three BS Startup Myths We Believe.
- Three Things to KISS.
- Want to Start a Company? Work at a Big One First.
- What I Wish Always Existed
- What is Customer Obsession?
- What Your Product Tells Investors
- When The World Tells You No, Don’t Hear Yes
- Why Maximizing Your Valuation May Be Minimizing Your Chance for Success
- Your Product Sucks; Stop Telling Me About It.
On Leadership 15
- Ask Questions Without Fear
- Be Positive, Asshole.
- Cultivating Dark Matter
- Don’t Panic; Let’s Talk
- Eliminate These Two Words
- Founders’ Anonymous
- I Hate Retrospectives
- I Love You, but I Hate Your Assistant
- Motivation.
- Opened Mouths Equal Closed Ears
- Ownership is About Trust
- Put Me In, Coach!
- Stop Asking Me For Introductions; I Only Connect People
- The Rule of Awesome
- Yes. It is Your Fault. Dammit.
On Noticing 27
- Atomic Giving
- Breaths, Heartbeats and Time
- Bulletproof.
- Chasing Perfection
- Choosing the Day I’m Going to Die Has Helped Me Live
- Creating Lines Out of Dots
- Creativity is as Creativity Does
- Giving Gets You Good
- I am Gay
- Legacy > Currency
- Living to Die
- On Suicide
- Pain Is Only Understood In Its Absence
- Step 1: Time Over Things
- The $12 Alarm Clock
- The Boring Life
- The Curse of Tomorrow
- The Perfect Month
- The Prepared Mind
- The Timid Nature of Age
- Touched By a Thousand Smiles
- Truth. Lost Among Optimism.
- When Your Time Comes Around
- Why I Write is Not Why You Do
- Working With The Voices In My Head
- Writing is More Than Words
- You know, that one fucking moment