$20MM Worth of Startup Lessons I Needed to Learn Firsthand
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But Maybe You Don't
When I stepped down as CEO in 2018, I wrote a post mortem and shared it privately with founder friends who directly asked when I blogged here. The company got acquired in 2019 and now I’m sharing the post mortem publicly because readers told me they saw novel concepts in my document they hadn’t heard elsewhere (as I write this I wonder if it's because I was wrong. But I know I’m not. It’s because my insights are original and uniquely well communicated). I used to abhor failure, but publicly releasing this post mortem no longer holds charge for me. Through Apptimize, I’ve learned and changed…
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