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As someone who exercises and travels regularly I have encountered a repeating issue over the last year. I’m going to explore this into products. 
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Within the space of a month is my wedding and my dad's 60th birthday. Both feel like pretty major life milestones. Both have me feeling nostalgic and yearning for a way to store memories better. For my dad's 60th I spent 100+ hours digitising, cataloguing, storing on the cloud and organising all physical tapes of our family memories. Memories from as far back as 1950, which were locked away in a VHS, that were guaranteed to never be seen again, can now be accesses in my fathers palm any time he is connected to the internet. This present and these life events got me thinking about a company a friend of mine started and an entirely new category that can be created. Enter Kinecho.  Last week, I had a conversation with someone where we clearly had a different understanding of the same term. That term was “Imposter Syndrome”. After the chat, I found myself obsessing on how annoyed I was. I think this difference in understanding is symptomatic of a greater issue we face. The inaccuracy of the language we share.  It’s been a year since I boarded the plane from London to Denver to spend 3 months in Boulder for the Techstars 2018 program and it feels like the right time to structure and share the thoughts I have been working on for the last month. If you’re considering Techstars and you feel the equity deal might be a little raw or an MD hasn’t gotten you to drink the kool-aid yet, I implore you to read on.  At the end of 2018 I picked up This Is Day One by Drew Dudley. As soon as I finished the book I turned it over and started reading it again. Yes I, Matt Quinn read the same book twice in a row in 2018.
This post is a hefty wade into the exercise at the end, my values and what I am committed to operationalising in 2019. Strap yourselves in folks. It's an authentic, vulnerable and long read. Inspired by Drew Dudley's This Is Day One, and with my commitment to being authentic - I am sharing my 25 pieces of edge of the bed advice. I have accumulated these across my 29 years of being through founding 2 companies, being a big corporate cog and (at one time) an engineer that built that bridge you cross to work everyday.  Do you know if you & your partners are healthy? Like…really know? If it’s not a definite yes, you should take a look at thriva.co (£10 off with this link)  My finger selfie — post blood test |
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