Rio: resort in the foreground, favela in the background, Christ the Redeemer in the distance watching over all.
When I was an entrepreneur raising money I tended to make a classic mistake: trying to convey all the amazing things we were doing in great detail. This is a terrible strategy. Why? Because too much detail buries the story of your business and also makes your business seem, well, complex. And…
Exactly right. I often compare the entrepreneurial fundraising process to dating: the only point of the first meeting is to evaluate whether you want to go on a second date. Getting down into the weeds at the first meeting is akin to showing your date the last 10 years of your tax returns on the first date. Tends not to work so well. ;-)
I imagine this goes both ways. The fundraiser reveals just enough to get the “second date” and learns enough from the funder to decide if there should be one.
"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner
"Play the game better if you’re winning. Change the rules of the game if you’re not."
— A.G. Lafley
You will not be asked to do the thing you do better. You will be asked to do the thing you and you alone can do.
It appears that, in my absence, some of the Tumblrs I’ve been following have gone off the rails.
Tired
I am up at 5:30 on a Sunday morning, working on a script. Because with the two kids and non-stop travel, it is the only time I can find. Half my brain says “if this is so hard, the universe is telling you it’s not meant to be.” The other half of my brain says “fuck that, keep writing.”
The best one.
(Source: mckaylaisnotimpressed)
