pivoting: the delight of a great team in a great space
I’m been enthusiastically hammering my head against the wall of local media and small business revenue models for over a dozen years. About a year ago, I strapped on my early stage start-up skates and wobbled my way back onto the ice.
the napkin phase
A lot has changed in the 6-7 years since I was an early stage entrepreneur. While running a 150-person local media tech business keeps you contemporary with industry knowledge, rolodex and perspective, you forget the scrappy exhilaration and anxiety of a from-scratch business formed around a shining new idea. It also gives you a near carnal attachment to a clean cap table;)
learning to lean
I’ve read with a mixture of enthusiasm and marginal skepticism the lean start-up school of thought. The “agile + listen to your market + pivot quickly” logic is high quality stuff for any start-up to seriously digest.