I’ve talked to a lot of founders about their startup experiences and one of the more consistent topics we eventually get to is that, somewhere around 80-100 people, the team dynamics get really hard. So hard, in fact, that many founders opt to leave their companies at around this size and bring in more “professional” management.
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Making money is an excellent side-effect of successful businesses. But, it’s a terrible core purpose.
Last week, Fred Wilson wrote one of my favorite posts in a while on Short-Term Thinking vs. Long-Term Thinking. Here’s an excerpt:
…Sure Samsung is making a killing on handset sales right now. So is Apple. That goes to their bottom line and then onto…
It’s 4:36am. I’ve been awake for an hour, stumbling through email and catching up on reading. G and I flew back from London two nights ago, and although I slept great last night, I crashed at 10pm tonight and only managed 6 hours before the jetlag kicked in.
Casey, who runs the inbound engineering team at Moz, and I had…