I’m (still) not crushing it – Elizabeth Yin
A decade ago, I wrote a blog post about how I was not crushing it with my startup LaunchBit. In that post, I added this graph: It looked good — up and to the right (though no labeled axes pub…
A decade ago, I wrote a blog post about how I was not crushing it with my startup LaunchBit. In that post, I added this graph: It looked good — up and to the right (though no labeled axes publicly disclosed). But, on a day-to-day basis, the graph looked like this and more importantly, *felt* like this: Doing a startup is HARD, because it’s hard to see the long-term ups of where you’ve come from and how much you’ve accomplished. And it’s easy to see all the troughs you have to stomach today. The headfake about my current company Hustle Fund is that even though we a
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