Cherilyn Tan

Mum to Zachary, Wife to @adrianmah | making legal affordable and accessible through @AsiaLawNetwork & SaaS

[Cherilyn Tan @cherilynt]

Life comes a full circle all the time. You meet people at different times but u know you’re meant to know them, and eventually you do.

[Cherilyn Tan @cherilynt]

To my #1 podcast of 2021, Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life: thank you for keeping me company on @Spotify all year long! #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/r47SzuCoyC

[Mashable @mashable]

The biophysicist who brought MRI into video age has been awarded the European Inventor Award https://t.co/H07hqTwGwv

[Barbra Streisand @BarbraStreisand]

The Prime Minister of Singapore (a country that only has three deaths out of 6 million people) speaks such common sense. He tells people the truth and they did everything that needed to be done to be ready for this virus.

[Terence Lee @terenceleejx]

Profitability is the name of the game now. Startups are doing well by selling shovels in a gold rush. That said, if the gold miners are hit, even the shovel sellers will be affected. Prudent cashflow management is key.

[Cherilyn Tan @cherilynt]

Beer like water.

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

Ever drank a beer tornado style? That's this Chinese man's secret for chugging a bottle quickly

[Brie Larson @brielarson]

SIRI - HOW CAN I TIME TRAVEL TO JUNE 5TH 2020

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #10: "You don't need a Head of Finance or People until you're much bigger." We should've hired both way sooner. I didn't know how much leverage they would provide. Helps exponentially!

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #9: "If we could just be more like...[name hot startup].” Counterfactuals: 1) @WeWork, 2) @Zenefits, 3) every startup founder seems stressed because every startup has issues.

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #8: "Connection requests on LinkedIn are an effective way to network." Counterfactual: have you ever done a deal that came in from a generic LI connection request? It's the last form of widely practiced spam. At least send an InMail (those work!).

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #7: "You 'just' need to hire amazing people!" Counterfactual: you do, it's 'just' not easy. The types of people you need change by stage (e.g. early on you need T shaped people). Hiring is the most important thing you do and it's 'just' hard. Credit: @WilliamsonMark

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #6: "You shouldn't grow with paid marketing!" Counterfactual: every consumer Fortune 100 company. You can't scale without paid marketing. It's a litmus test of product market fit. Buying growth and relying on it is bad, but buying profitable paid marketing is great.

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #5: "I don't think that idea will work, because I wouldn't use it" Counterfactual: Apple, Uber, @masterclass (we heard that all the time). I think it's because we're bad at imagining things that don't exist and worse at imagining the needs of people who aren't us.

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #4: "Be careful about getting investors. They have hidden agendas!" Counterfactual: investors have the most transparent agendas I've seen -- maximize company value. If you don't want to do that, then don't raise venture capital.

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #3: "If it fails, you set your career back years." Counterfactual: every acquihire. @WilliamsonMark taught me about job vs career risk. At a startup, you have job risk, but little career risk. If the startup fails, you'll have learned a ton you can bring to a next job

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #2: "You get only one chance to be an entrepreneur so your first idea better work!" Counterfactual: @reidhoffman started SocialNet before Linkedin.

[David Rogier @drogier]

Myth #1: "You can't start that idea -- you aren't an expert in that!" Counterfactual: almost every entrepreneur. @elonmusk wasn't an expert in payments, batteries, rockets and solar panels. @JeffBezos didn't run bookstores.

[David Rogier @drogier]

When we were starting @masterclass, I kept hearing startup myths that made me question not only the idea, but myself as an entrepreneur. What helped me was thinking of counterfactuals. They were inspiring. Startup myths I felt and their counterfactuals:

[Cherilyn Tan @cherilynt]

Watching #livedierepeat #edgeoftomorrow for the 6th time.
My fav line: We’ve been through worse.
#inspiration

[Lindy Ledohowski, PhD👩🏻‍💻📚🇨🇦🇺🇦 @DoctorLindy]

@sbyrnes Yes. We have had investors say similar things. I’m like “we run a lean team, accomplishing a lot with little, consistently grow, and don’t spend money we don’t have, and that’s.....bad?”