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The Many Hats I’m Wearing as a Founder
The roles people have in companies are not secrets to anyone. Nor are they surprises. Yet, when creating a company, they’re easy to overlook, with devastating business implications. When starting a company, you will have to do things you never did before. Things you don’t know how to do. Things you don’t like doing. Things you didn’t know needed doing. Things you thought didn’t need doing anyway, and which you may have been cynical about. I most certainly have been. This gets “worse”, or let’s say more challenging and interesting, when you’re alone in the company. Wearing hats I like the metaphor of wearing hats. Because that’s what I’m doing…
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Growth Is Not the Only Goal
For many, growth is the undisputed holy grail of business. The ultimate goal. Grow or die. Eat or be eaten. You can google it, you’ll find many answers: A lot of what’s written does make sense. Business and technology can be seen as products of an ongoing hyper evolution, an extension to Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution of biological life. I find this a very interesting thought. If you want to learn more, look at how Kevin Kelly from Wired defined our technology as the 7th Kingdom of Life, the Technium – an interesting talk and point of view I definitely recommend watching: This is an academic perspective. What does…