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Frantic Founder Syndrome
Frantic Founder Syndrome You’re 30 minutes late (again). You’re answering a text while listening in on a conference call, while (kind of) participating in a conversation with your colleague while
Frantic Founder Syndrome You’re 30 minutes late (again). You’re answering a text while listening in on a conference call, while (kind of) participating in a conversation with your colleague while
How To Protect Your Culture It starts with your team. You have a vision. You have goals. You pursue them. Problems arise. Action is taken. Experiments are run. Solutions are
How To Deal With When Your Team Is Sad… Not all of startup life is strong coffee, nap rooms, funding rounds, happy hours, and hackathons. Sometimes startup life sucks. And
Your Startup Is An Ugly Baby… Here’s How to Raise It As the founder of ETW Advisors, I have the good fortune of working with dozens of entrepreneurs every week.
Good Managers Versus Bad Managers (Thank you Ben Horowitz for the inspiration) Good Managers care deeply about how they show up with their teams every day, want success for all (not
The Emotional Stages Of Startup Fundraising At ETW Advisors, we advise A LOT of startups fundraises. Not surprisingly, first-time founders often have the same questions for us. One of them
Your Startup Doesn’t Matter I know you’re in a hurry. I know everything feels so rushed, so pressurized, so urgent. I know that it’s easy to lose empathy and for
Stop F*cking Begging I know you’re a startup. I know it feels like you’re often just begging for crumbs. But stop. Please, for the love of all that’s holy, stop.
Cash Rules Everything Around Me Capital is the lifeblood of a young startup. It’s not an accident that the very language used to describe money conveys a sense of survival.
Startup Burn I’m fortunate to have just returned from a week at Burning Man. It was my 3rd burn in as many years. It’s a special, different, and difficult place.
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