Sublime

This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

It is part of the Silicon Valley circle of life that this happens—that tiny, high-energy startups eventually grow to be large and unwieldy, and the most entrepreneurial employees go on to spread their know-how, money,

Embrace the struggle.

Brian Balfour is recognized as a growth expert. He has started and grown multiple VC-backed companies with millions of users and is the former VP of Growth at HubSpot. Brian runs a terrific blog discussing the latest growth strategies and techniques (http://www.coelevate.com) and leads masterclasses on the topic at http://www.reforge.com

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As a result, big company executives tend to be interrupt-driven. In contrast, when you are a startup executive, nothing happens unless you make it happen. In the early days of a company, you have to take eight to ten new initiatives a day or the company will stand still. There is no inertia that’s putting the company in motion. Without massive inpu