Built to Become: Creating Corporate Longevity (video)

Built to Become: Creating Corporate Longevity:

How do you create a company that will evolve and only get better with time? In this video Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Robert A. Burgelman outlines a framework to do that just that. With strategic leadership a company can carry a founder's key principles into the future and build a business that will last. Published on Mar 9, 2016

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VCs, Founders, Conceit

The VC’s conceit | rohit: " . . . the only things we need to be moved by is:

Is the idea big enough that it will change how adjacent technologies/products/markets behave?
Is the market big enough that it will contort itself to pay for it?
Is the founder’s conviction big enough that they must do this or the idea will die, and  that they can and will recruit the very best team possible to deliver on the idea?
Beyond these realizations, we can argue financial projections, models, and hiring plans forever and will not get a shred of certainty. Yet we ask for it…. and more. And most founders partake in this ritual habitual by supplying ‘data’ riding on powerpoint in response. This is the founder’s conceit...."

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How's it going?

The Entrepreneur's Hoax, and Why I Won't Play Along | Built In Chicago: " . . . . So what’s my response when someone casually asks, “How’s it going?” On good days and bad days alike, I say something like “It’s going, thanks. We’re chugging along, making progress every day.” And we are. Moxie Jean is a lot bigger, and we’re ten times smarter than we were just a few months ago. We’ve figured out so many pieces of the puzzle (some painfully and all through trial and error). But truthfully, we still have some big things to figure out, and I ask my friends, mentors and investors for help and advice all the time. I also try to be candid in sharing lessons, wrong turns and times of struggle, mostly because turning events into coherent stories helps me process it all, but also with the hope that other people will know that their own doubts and disappointments are part of the normal life of a startup entrepreneur." (read full article at link above)


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The Pressures on Founders

An article worth reading and pondering--

Should We Talk about the Fact That Jody Sherman Didn't Just Die, But That He Killed Himself?  - LAUNCH -: ". . . . Perhaps we owe it to these three amazing humans to examine if the pressures of being a founder, the pressure of our community's relentless pursuit of greatness, in some way contributed to their deaths? I've always believed that being a founder is an unhealthy pursuit at times, and few have disagreed -- certainly not those who have done it. Read any biography of a successful founder and you'll find collateral damage around -- and certainly in -- those individuals. Startups are a full-contact sport. This is a good time for all of us to pause and think about why we're doing this. And the impact it's having on us and the people around us. I'm not an expert on suicide, but I am an expert on being a founder. Many of the founders I know have been desperate, depressed and overwhelmed in their careers. For everyone that shared this with me, I'm certain 10 more didn't. Could these deaths have been avoided? Perhaps. Is it worth exploring why this happens and if it is, in fact, a trend? Absolutely. . . . ."


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