Category: Building Odeko
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Winning startups develop their process muscles from the beginning
Startup mythology tells us to avoid process at all cost. It’s bureaucratic. It’s a big company control mechanism. It stops the only advantage that startups have – speed. The mythology is wrong. Every business needs to build 3 simple processes into their DNA from the very beginning: Define the next set of milestones for the […]
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Metrics in; Product discipline out
In the Spring of 2019, we became obsessed with our metrics. Specifically, the metrics that focused on how large of an impact we wanted to have in the lives of our customers as opposed to the metric of how successfully we were solving the key problems in our customer’s lives. During this period, we lost […]
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Why it was worth fighting for
It’s really easy for me to come out of the last 3 or 4 months with nothing but negative views on what happened, and why it ended up where it did. But the reality is that I was in the situation that I was because I strongly believed in something that – honestly – would […]
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A letter to my future self to remember why I left Odeko
At the beginning of 2019, I founded and built an amazing startup. At the end of 2019, I left. Over the next few days, I’m going to write about what I think happened in 2019 that meant that I went from the happiest I’ve ever been in a role to depressed, burnt out, and running […]