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Big entities can afford to be arrogant and are well known to pay with promises instead of money. Silicon Valley is full of skulls and bones of little guys who g
by gesman 13y ago
Big entities can afford to be arrogant and are well known to pay with promises instead of money. Silicon Valley is full of skulls and bones of little guys who got too excited too soon.
Business as usual until papers are fully signed and money in the bank.
- mathattack 13y agoReally the second half. It's the money in the bank. :-)
- gesman 13y agoRight. I'll ditch papers for money.
- infinitone 13y agoThis- this and this. If every entrepreneur knew this from day 0, I'd garner we'd have a lot less mental breakdowns :) It reminds me of a story of me when I got super excited about a contract with Zipcar, it was going great after meeting and email then silence. And 2 weeks later, got the call to end it all. The lesson is to be humble/modest and don't get excited/lose focus when dealing with bigger cats- once the contract is signed AND money is transfered then maybe you can celebrate a bit.
- numbsafari 13y agoThis is the essence of this story. The past year of my life has been spent dealing with a founder who assumes every compliment is a business deal ready to happen. We've wasted so much time and money chasing after "paradigm shifts" and "game changers" that were literally nothing more than polite, small-talky blow offs. There's a certain kind of narcissism at work in the minds of many founders. Perhaps it is what makes them successful on some level. Perhaps it is what motivates them to go forward. I dunno. Whatever it is, it is endlessly frustrating.