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Starting a company is like landing on the shore of a deserted island
- josefresco 18y agoI always tell clients launching a website is like opening a business in the back of a burned out warehouse (the marketing soft sell)
- bigthboy 18y agoGood analogy. It pretty much hits the nail on the head, question is... by Tiger was he referring to another larger company or is he talking specifically about the colorful names that Apple gives its OS X models?
- goodgoblin 18y agoSomewhere in the analogy there needs to be the hope of getting rescued by the Tropicana Bikini Girls World Tour Luxury Yacht.
- charlesju 18y agoOr perhaps startups are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get?
- tamersalama 18y agoBest analogy I've heard for a while.
- known 18y agoI can empathize with the farm boy back ground of Evan Williams.
- debt 18y agoI like that he carefully avoids mentioning that most people would want to get the hell off a deserted island. I'm using the provisions I have to help me survive my journey home, and not to sustain life on the island.