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As CEO you carry the can for everything that goes right and everything that goes wrong in your business. You are under pressure from investors to deliver what you pitched them. From customers to deliver what you sold them. And from employees to pay t...
If you’re a tech company, backing up your code should happen automatically, daily, hourly, or whatever your levels of paranoia dictate. But as CEO you should also be backing up everything you do. Dropbox, Google Drive, and the like, do this for you a...
Stand back and evaluate what you are doing from time to time. As CEO you must have focus on the immediate-term of what you are trying to achieve. But, every so often, it’s important to ‘back up’, look at the environment, the market, the technology, a...
Selling is acting. Whenever you are in front of an investor, a customer, an employee, you must be selling. Each audience needs a different script, but as CEO it is your job to continuously sell the company, its future potential, and its products and ...
A lot – probably too much – has been written about startups, entrepreneurship and being a CEO. This blog, and my book, is meant to express many of the aspects of the life of a startup CEO, in bite-sized, useful and sometimes humorous ways. It is not ...