"So they sublet their San Francisco office and moved to a cheaper city where they could focus: Kyoto."
I'm totally fine with this becoming the new startup playbook.
https://t.co/ptKep8Q3hg
We are an island of life in a dead solar system.
We are a moment of civility in a history of brutality.
Take nothing for granted. Be grateful for everything.
My guest for Episode97 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was @caseyfenton, the Co-founder of @Couchsurfing & @UpstockEquity. In this interview we spoke about:
- Distributed decision making
- Splitting equity fairly
- how to hack your ego
https://t.co/6n2TPRp9A7
#startupaus#podcast
If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive inside and you have to get it out into the world for the pure satisfaction of making it happen.
People have original thoughts in the shower because it is one of the only places in modern life that offers refuge from entertainment, compulsive workaholism, and social hyperconnectedness.
The isolation allows you to hear yourself think.
Morning meditation for the masses.
People talk about businesses having "moats" but I think a better metaphor is a reef. A reef can protect and foster an ecosystem while keeping bad players out, or serve as treacherous and impassable protection. They also grow fractally. Grow a reef.
We are in the early stages of a tectonic shift in work, enabled by software
Software is about to eat the physical office
Remote work will simply become “work”
Let’s compile a list of the best modern tools
Anything is game — startups, big companies, hardware, software... Go!
“We built a dashboard to show startup employees the value of their equity so that can see it go up and they can believe in it. It changes the perception of value; they feel like owners and entrepreneurs.” - @UpstockEquity@caseyfenton@StartupGrindAUS@startupgrind
Another big topic at #WSJDLive this week in Laguna: the state of venture capital. More VC money is going into fewer startup deals. https://t.co/nnw4vbsqgB via @eliotwb
@DisruptionJoe Then you need to know about my client @UpstockEquity! They help SMEs access Fortune 1000 stock plans, complete with a state-of-the-art equity distribution algorithm & a dashboard where workers can see their equity grow in real time. https://t.co/XKK6HJgb8W