Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
lennyspodcast.com
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Note by John Rush on Substack
substack.com
Ben Horowitz on Peacetime vs. Wartime CEOs:
Management literature is almost entirely written for peacetime CEOs. Everything you learn about decision-making and delegation and “don't micromanage”, all these things are very peacetime oriented in the sense that in peacetime, you're much more focused on the development of the people and the organization
... See moreLivingston: What surprised you most about having your own startup? Schachter: It's a combination of sudden freedom to run things as you please and crushing responsibility in which you know you have to do certain things in a certain way at a certain time. That eradicates all of that freedom. You become a robot on rails. You know what you have to do
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Winblad: One of the big mistakes is that, when you form a company, there's a difference between being an inventor and being entrepreneurial to leading a company—being the CEO or, especially, the leader. You're not fending for yourself anymore. You're actually fending for shareholders. They can't be fending for their salary; they can't be fending fo
... See more