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Comment on Calendar time vs clock time (AKA why “should I quit my job?” is a bad question) by Henrik Bergström

Henrik Bergström — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:04:34 +0000

Great insights and it’s important to remember that it’s not only your lunch breaks you can use for “starting up”. If you set aside everything else you can easily get 20 hours of work done during a weekend. One hour of work before/after your day job adds 5 more hours per week.

So you can easily work 20-25 hours per week on your startup without quitting your job.

Another important thing is outsourcing/delegation. If you realise you need to put a lot of “clock time”, it doesn’t mean you have to do it yourself! Hire someone else to do it for you and then you only have to spend time coordinating the work.

In that way you can transfer clock time into calendar time again, since all you do is “sit around waiting” for the other person to complete the clock time-bound tasks.

If you deal with physical products you will also have to endure a lot of calendar time while the products are produced and then shipped to you or your customers. All that can easily add up to 3-12 months of “just waiting”.

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Comment on Unconditionals by Stevan

Stevan — Mon, 15 May 2017 14:21:33 +0000

Completely agree with this. I think this is the big problem with pivot culture. When people start a company we consider founder-startup fit i.e. is this founder suitable for the company they are starting? This includes if they are passionate about it or not. Very few people re-evaluate this when a company pivots and its easy to pivot (or pivot, pivot and pivot again) into a space that a founder may have no passion for (which is ultimately pretty crushing for the soul).

Comment on High stakes learning by Jakub Kostecki

Jakub Kostecki — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:41:43 +0000

Hi Rob, thanks for your post on swapping equity, taking money off the table and other ways of reducing startup risk. I was wondering if you have some more information / resources on equity swapping. A Google search didn’t lead me to anything noteworthy and I’m looking to learn more about this way of mitigating risk while building startups.

Comment on Accidental charlatans by Losing while being right, winning while being wrong | @robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:03:00 +0000

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Comment on Accidental charlatans by Henrik Bergstrom

Henrik Bergstrom — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:28:34 +0000

Great insights, Rob!

I’ve also been thinking a lot about the advice given by successful entrepreneurs, but from a different perspective.

You often hear them (proudly and emotionally) telling the story about how the made it. The struggles, the hustling, the crazy credit card debts, etc.

But when asked for advice they almost always say “I would never do it like that again” and then they start talking about “how to do things the right way” although they have no experience of doing things that way.

Isn’t this strange? They have a proven example of how to do it, but tell everyone else to do it another way.

Comment on Surplus time by Default culture, contagious culture | @robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:03:37 +0000

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Surplus time | @robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:41:43 +0000

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Comment on Happy byproducts of startup work (even if the startup doesn’t) by Kicking the ambition addiction | @robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:01:06 +0000

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