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Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by AndyParkinson »

phreanix wrote: post #2

It's funny, I see so many crash courses offered on how to code, hack your way to a startup, etc., yet not a lot directed at actual startup owners/CEO's on exactly this: Now that you have a startup, what now?

I really hope I can help. It's so important and rarely talked about in our community.

Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by technotony »

I'm not sure I agree with this entirely, yes you have to learn some new skills but it's still important to focus on your strengths - just learn to delegate the other things. Steve Jobs is a great example of this in practice, by all accounts not so good at management but he made damn good products!

Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by AndyParkinson »

technotony wrote: post #4

I'm not sure I agree with this entirely, yes you have to learn some new skills but it's still important to focus on your strengths - just learn to delegate the other things. Steve Jobs is a great example of this in practice, by all accounts not so good at management but he made damn good products!

What if delegation is your weakness (as it is for most of us)?

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Post by amplification »

I like the point being made here: building a product is hard. But once you've built it, you have a new mountain to climb: building a business.

In our startup culture, "building the business" is usually delegated to a new CEO, brought in from the outside. I don't think it has to be that way. Managing a business is hard, but it's just a new challenge. Founders don't have to give their business to someone else to manage.

Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by xsighted »

phreanix wrote: post #2

It's funny, I see so many crash courses offered on how to code, hack your way to a startup, etc., yet not a lot directed at actual startup owners/CEO's on exactly this: Now that you have a startup, what now?

Well, the only ones qualified to teach such a course are probably too busy to teach it. Although, no better way to learn than to dive in head first.

Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by phreanix »

xsighted wrote: post #7
phreanix wrote: post #2

It's funny, I see so many crash courses offered on how to code, hack your way to a startup, etc., yet not a lot directed at actual startup owners/CEO's on exactly this: Now that you have a startup, what now?

Well, the only ones qualified to teach such a course are probably too busy to teach it. Although, no better way to learn than to dive in head first.

Some things like management principles, accounting, and others could be better learned in a short course instead of learning the hard way. In a struggling startup, a mistake like that could mean success or failure.

Re: Startup CEOs: Screw Your Strengths

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Post by xsighted »

phreanix wrote: post #8
xsighted wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the only ones qualified to teach such a course are probably too busy to teach it. Although, no better way to learn than to dive in head first.

Some things like management principles, accounting, and others could be better learned in a short course instead of learning the hard way. In a struggling startup, a mistake like that could mean success or failure.

i've done all of those, and I can tell you first hand ... learning is best by doing ... it's not comfortable .. but you figure it out .... pass the accounting to an accountant ... or theres tons of 101 courses on youtube ... management itself is learnt by doing ...
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