Conundrum indeed.
entrepreneurship
Running a startup is great; Growing a business is boring
Enjoyed this post, as it describes closely how I see myself as well in terms of loving startup life so much that I’m keen to do new, cool stuff going forward. For now though, I’m ecstatic at the journey that WooThemes is affording me! :)
Superhero Startup
For how many of you is this quote true?
Startup Quote
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
- Drew Houston
Hopefully my “once” was WooThemes. :)
Why the fascination with $1bn businesses?
I’ve been listening to many business people of late and I’m astounded that there is this obsession to great massive businesses that are worth multiple billion dollars.
I don’t know about you, but even though I’m a firm believer in capitalism, as well as being a very ambitious individual; I harbour no dream to build a bloated business that requires me to do more chaos management than strategizing (and all the other fun stuff related to running your own business).
Taylor Davdison sums this up beautifully:
But should the goal really be bigger businesses? Are bigger businesses necessarily better businesses? Shouldn’t the goal be better businesses? And where are the metrics to measure that?
I’d also like to add that businesses should be about solving problems, having fun & being passionate about the things you do. If it’s not all that, it doesn’t matter how big your company is or even less or much it is worth.