Paul English
10 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2018 by Paul English · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Jun 8, 2018
Paul English argues customers do not care about venture funding announcements
“Your customers don't care who invested in you. And for the most part, your customers don't even care if you're a private company or a public company. I think these milestones are more internal ones. They're not ones important to the customers. So I would encou…”
Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 neutral
Jun 8, 2018
Paul English advocates for radical transparency with co-founders during startup crises
“I believe in radical transparency. So if something goes really bad at my company, I'll reach out to my co-founder first and maybe to my management team out of my board and just say, I just really screwed something up, you know, help me think this through. So w…”
Jun 8, 2018
Paul English validates startup ideas by pitching collaborators before writing code
“What I like to do to validate the idea is I write up a SPAC or a design, and then I pitch it, and I might be pitching it to a family member, a friend, a colleague, and it's only when I get one person excited do I say, okay, maybe there's something here, and th…”
Jun 8, 2018
Paul English omits distracting board member suggestions from official meeting minutes
“I don't write down everything the board says, and maybe this is bad. I write down the things that are the most significant or things that I'm going to take action on. But if it's something someone mentioned about some side project that I think is Defocused, ev…”
Jun 8, 2018
Tech startup creativity requires problem empathy and relentless iteration
“In tech entrepreneurship, I think most creativity comes out of people who are empaths for problems, and when you see something that irritates you, rather than just say that's irritating and move on, you kind of focus on it, and you try to think about other peo…”
Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018
Philanthropists should fund non-profit leaders upfront without imposing bureaucratic reporting hurdles
“Find the leader that inspires you. Write them checks first, and ask the question second. And I know from being in the boards and helping start some non-profits, a lot of donors make the non-profit leader, like, jump through hoops, do so much work in reporting.…”