startup founder

“A bit of experience in the industry, say five to seven years is what I consider as ideal, because it allows you to be exposed to the corporate world because you're going to be engaging and hiring people who are part of that industry at some point of time. So i…”

“And largely without having been in founder shoes, it's very hard to actually empathize with founders all the challenges that people go through.”

“I think there are a lot, there are lots of yarn about, knowledge about how to start. I don't think there is enough knowledge about material about how to quit.”

“So I think again every, every founder won't have the maturity, I think, to be able to run, you know, An operation unprofitably and still at some point become profitable. The knowledge and the know-how of doing that is very difficult.”

“Sometimes I feel it's much more important to, I think trade some amount for relationships over there, because it's not the only time when you're going to work with each other, but I think there will be multiple occasions where you're going to work with each ot…”

“I believe at least 50% of founders massage the data and the numbers before they come to the investor.”

“If you are hung up on the valuation in the bid need and you're spending six months a year to raise money, you're being foolish. You're being left behind. You could double, triple value if you took the money and started to build this stuff.”

“Don't do the income statement if there is work to do over here on the product, because you can always clean the income statement up later, but the minute you leave a crack for a competitor to come in and steal your lunch is gone. And you just have to have that…”

“People are conditioned by the messaging around startups to believe that if you only persist, that if you only work hard enough, you will find success. And that is just obviously not true. If you look in the rearview mirror, if you look at the data, many, many,…”

“No matter how hard you try, if you have picked the wrong market, if you have built the wrong product, There's no amount of hard work that's going to change the fact that the market doesn't want what you have.”

“If you want to make sure that you have the right founder, you ask tough questions in the interview process. Right? And you sometimes, ah, ask questions where it might be irritating to them, and then you see how they react to it. Right. And then you get a sense…”