Posts tagged connection
Why founder teams fail (and how to make sure you don’t) 

Throw your mind back to when you first got together, you were the dream team. You loved spending time with each other. You shared values, beliefs and ideals and you were going to change the world while constructing a utopia together. Something like that anyway.


You had a mutual admiration for each other's skills and you strongly believed that together you could go further and faster than you could alone. You complemented each other in the best way imaginable.



The business that you were going to create was going to be fun and seamless, because you could almost end each other's sentences. You were so excited to get started because you knew how much fun it was going to be, and the incredible things that you could accomplish together.

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Advice falls into one of 4 camps

Camp one is, I am, in this moment at least, an idiot and I don’t even know it. I’ve lost all perspective. I know from experience that this is a dangerous place to be. Largely because you, at the time, have no idea it’s you.

The receiver here would benefit from choosing not to be offended but rather should focus on having sympathy for someone looking for a much needed ego boost.

Try “interesting ideas John, I’ll certainly keep that in mind”.

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600 Coffee is in Copenhagen

Christina made this off hand comment to me while were skiing in France over Christmas

We were having that, are you going to make any New Years resolution conversation.

It sort of means, what would make next year better than this year when you think about it and I like that.

I had decided that I wanted to start growing my business in Denmark rather than just the Uk and I was unsure how I wanted to do it.

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