Hi Waseem, Nice article. Regarding your advice on focusing on hair-on-fire problems- I find this a bit confusing. If you look at most of the recent successes, they don't seem to be solving hair-on-fire problems at least at the beginning. Isn't it true about Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, Robinhood, etc? These companies provided better alternatives that customers were not even asking for. In other words, their success came from anticipating future problems and addressing them better. Do you agree?
Suppose you have the idea and potential, but not confident to it , may be due to the thought of too much hard work or just because you don't think you can/should do it. What to do?
I know it sounds more like a motivation problem but I know a lot of people reading it, have the same problem.
'' if you’re solving problem #10 for someone, you’re in trouble.'' That's true and we can see recently many startups have been closed just because of this reason.
Hi Waseem. Interesting article - as I understand you currently hire your own finance experts acting as CFO's instead of building a network of freelancers. Why did you decide to go this path instead of the freelancing one? Is it due to the time needed to ramp up with the software you are using internally or to decrease the risk of talents moving to other opportunities?
Hi Waseem, Nice article. Regarding your advice on focusing on hair-on-fire problems- I find this a bit confusing. If you look at most of the recent successes, they don't seem to be solving hair-on-fire problems at least at the beginning. Isn't it true about Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, Robinhood, etc? These companies provided better alternatives that customers were not even asking for. In other words, their success came from anticipating future problems and addressing them better. Do you agree?
Suppose you have the idea and potential, but not confident to it , may be due to the thought of too much hard work or just because you don't think you can/should do it. What to do?
I know it sounds more like a motivation problem but I know a lot of people reading it, have the same problem.
Hi Waseem. Interesting article.
'' if you’re solving problem #10 for someone, you’re in trouble.'' That's true and we can see recently many startups have been closed just because of this reason.
Hi Waseem. Interesting article - as I understand you currently hire your own finance experts acting as CFO's instead of building a network of freelancers. Why did you decide to go this path instead of the freelancing one? Is it due to the time needed to ramp up with the software you are using internally or to decrease the risk of talents moving to other opportunities?
Hi Waseem! Really enjoyed your advice on B2B startups. In your experience, how entwined are accounting and legal management in a company?