Unanswerable startup questions
1) bay area or ______ (seattle, boston, new york, austin, topeka…)
2) can you be successful as a part-time entrepreneur (while working at BigCo)?
3) ruby or _____
4) wordpress or _____
5) is _____ good for SEO (this one’s a little bit more answerable, but still requires that you do a bit of research, and make quick non-fully-informed decision)
6) lifestyle business or venture capital?
7) when to give up?
8) profitability or growth?
9) is content or design more important?
10) what metrics to track? best things for dashboard?
11) ad-supported or fee-based/freemium?
12) rackspace, AWS, or _______
13) paypal or ______
14) scrum, waterfall, or chaos?
15) in-house or off-shore devs?
16) PR firm or do it yourself
17) …
Things Entrepreneurs Say (and what they mean)
1) it’s going great
2) the last few months have been awesome
3) we’re making great progress
4) the team’s really coming together
5) we’re still relatively small, but growing quickly
6) we’ve had x# record revenue months in a row
7) traffic’s continuing to grow
8) we’re angel funded
9) we pay market rates
10) equity compensation included
11) looking for rock-star developers
12) looking for CTO who’s hands-on
13) looking for interns
14) i love my VC/investors/advisors
15) everyone in the company is in marketing
16) everyone helps with CS support
17) …
Job Description of a Founder/CEO
1) …