To: Solo founders, those looking for cofounders & non techies looking to co-found a company
From: Matt Quinn (2 time non technical co-founder, ACA) Subject: RE: Found with the right team
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To: Product People, The Powers That Be
CC: Anyone who cares From: Matt Quinn (Head of Product, Dual Citizen, Lived in 8 major cities so far) Subject: RE: Does the world need more product managers? To: World
CC: Founders with chips on their shoulders who feel that nothing they do is enough From: Matt Quinn (2x founder, 1 exit, several side project - overly empathetic person) Subject: I think I had a break through My family is slowly catching on that we can enjoy activities online - together
On Saturday we watched an art class on zoom (from YouTube) and everyone had bought paints before hand. Costumes were involved. The outcome was fantastic, fun and affordable How often do you find you need advice, you reach out to people you look up to for help and their advice confirms everything you already knew, just in a clearer, unemotional way?
Over the past 2 years I have been sending personal network updates.
When people or companies come to me for advice, the number one thing I tell them is - start a network update. Keep me updated. I have recently gone through a string of bad hires, a problem we as an organisation have rapidly learned from (set candidates homework people!).
And as every hire hasn’t worked out I’ve looked back at their resume (CV for the English in the room) and wondered what did I miss? For the longest time felt like I didn’t fail at things. I was brought up with the mindset that if something is doable, it cannot be hard. A mindset which compels you to find harder and harder challenges.
That all changed when Flex, the Techstars company I co-founded didn’t work out. It broke me. Is anyone else exhausted by the world yet? The last 4 years have made the news effectively useless as a medium for informing the public, and the populace at large have become so tribally loyal that the main political parties behave like cults.
I keep coming back to the fact that the system (UK/US) is built for cars, and as hard as you try to switch to bikes it ends in tears.
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