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Call me skeptical, but this whole blog smells of a giant PR campaign. Miraculously, in 30 days, the author will reveal that he has saved the dying company, thanks to the Internet. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a giant "subscribe to my newsletter" button very soon.
Well, I want to be a believer, but unfortunately I had the exact same thought when I saw it.
One of the first things you learn as an entrepreneur is
that on some level, you’re only as good as your pitch.
The accelerators reinforce this by teaching you the
art of storytelling, a skill that helps an investor
sign a term sheet as much as it helps the father of a
young child decide to take a pay cut to be part of
something that’s amazing.
If not, listen to the advice in these comments.
If this is, as some have suggested, a PR campaign/stunt (which doesn't seem entirely over the top)... then it's in poor taste, in my opinion.
On some level that may be true. I think the primary level though is that you're only as good as your product. Smart pitches alone get you nowhere. If you don't have a solid, functional product (and one that meets a true market need) the pitch is irrelevant. Nobody buys ideas. Good products sell themselves.
Some advice. It's not going to be easy to hear, and you won't believe me until after you've gone through the rest of the process. You're taking all of this way too seriously. It's just a company. Sure, it was one that you poured everything you had into, and I'm sure you associate a great deal of your self-identity with it, but it's still just a company. Some context: I sold my first startup, which I co-founded with m…
Some advice. It's not going to be easy to hear, and you won't believe me until after you've gone through the rest of the process. You're taking all of this way too seriously. It's just a company. Sure, it was one that you poured everything you had into, and I'm sure you associate a great deal of your self-identity with it, but it's still just a company. Some context: I sold my first startup, which I co-founded with m…
An acquihire and even -fire would seem to be a pretty desirable outcome to our writer.
Some advice. It's not going to be easy to hear, and you won't believe me until after you've gone through the rest of the process. You're taking all of this way too seriously. It's just a company. Sure, it was one that you poured everything you had into, and I'm sure you associate a great deal of your self-identity with it, but it's still just a company. Some context: I sold my first startup, which I co-founded with m…
I feel it's really unfair for you to compare a sale of a company to crashing and burning in one. An acquihire and even -fire would seem to be a pretty desirable outcome to our writer.