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You're usually valued and crucial at one. So try to fix it and give them the option of firing you if they don't like it. Identifying it is when they say things

You're usually valued and crucial at one. So try to fix it and give them the option of firing you if they don't like it. Identifying it is when they say things are going to happen but they either don't get done or some shadow of that thing gets halfway done 6 months too late. Also you may be in because it's a hot idea. If you see other companies pop up with the same idea and they are actually moving and yours isn't, then leave. First to market is irrelevant if the first people are bozos who can't scale. Everyone will steal their idea and the original innovator will trip over their shoelaces.

mooreds 8y ago
> Identifying it is when they say things are going to happen but they either don't get done or some shadow of that thing gets halfway done 6 months too late. This is it! You just saved me from writing the blog post. I haven't been part of any rocketship startups, but have been part of successful bootstrapped ones, and unsuccessful zombie ones. The difference was the ability to: * state a goal * execute to achieve said goal My guess is that the chosen goals are the difference between mildly and wildly successful startups, but if you can't state a goal and execute, you're in a zombie startup. It may pretend to be alive, but it's not.