One way I’ve measured my career development is in the dramatic decline in the awesomeness of my offices and desks over the years. At the age of 26, I started my new role as an audit and tax supervisor at the national accounting firm Kenneth Leventhal. Their Boston office was located at 60 State Street, […]
Find Product-Market Fit Before You Try to Scale
One of the worst mistakes a startup can make is to raise and spend too much money before they’ve found product-market fit. I’ve seen a lot of high value, high cash burn businesses flame out spectacularly over the years. They raise millions on hype and and spend quickly to achieve bogus metrics, only to realize […]
A great quote from Thomas Dent Mutter
“The world is no place of rest. I repeat, it is no place of rest but for effort. Steady, continuous undeviating effort. Our work should never be done and it is the daydream of ignorance to look forward to that as a happy time, when we shall wish for nothing more, and have nothing more […]