Lucinda
|
I’ve founded a new company, this time all by my lonesome. Depending on how you count, this is at least my sixth startup:
The most common question I get after speaking at entrepreneurial events is always some version of “how do I start?” and the answer is “you just do,” which isn’t very useful for people. The only thing that seems useful is to give them examples. My plan is to tell the story of my next company as it unfolds, in the same way I documented my experience as an Eisenhower Fellow in a long series of posts on my old blog [Cereal CEO, which I'm copying into this new blog]. I hope that it’s useful to other entrepreneurs.
0 Comments
I was having lunch not too long ago with a great friend, helping him out with a new wine sitehe’s been building. He mentioned that a mutual business acquaintance had said that “I’ve never seen anyone network like” me. Huh? I hate networking. I hate when I feel like people are networking with me.But I do believe in relationships. Even though I’m an introvert and don’t really know how to talk to people whom I don’t know, unless I have something specific to talk with them about. Like work.Why do you care? Thats a photo of the staff of TurnTide, which we founded and sold to Symantec in 2004. The orange circles are the people who have now joined us at Commerce360. The red circles are people who worked with us at Destiny before TurnTide.Nurturing relationships is smart all of those people are awesome. And they are known quantities; they reduce risk. Mostly, though, it’s fun to be with people you know, like, and share history with.
|
Categories
All
Archives
December 2017
MeI've started and/or run too many venture capital-backed software companies, plus one ill-fated food startup. |