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Are your users recommending you to other people without you asking them to do it? If you’re a B2B company, do you have at least 10 paying customers? If not, then that’s often the underlying problem, and we tell companies to make their product better. I am skeptical about most excuses for why a company isn’t growing—very often the real reason is that the product just isn’t good enough.
Startup Playbook
Sam Altman and Gregory Koberger
the control frauds that were destroying Texas. At the same time that it was lobbying against the FSLIC recap, it was working on a “Report on the Texas Thrift and Real Estate Crises” (released October 30, 1987). The report explained that “entrepreneurs with backgrounds in real estate development either own or owned 20 of the 24 most deeply insolvent thrifts in Texas (with the remaining four copying the tactics of the real estate entrepreneurs)” (18). The report emphasizes that ADC loans “turned out to be veritable ticking time bombs whose subsequent explosions devastated substantial numbers of Texas thrifts” (10). Concluding that “while there was not anything necessarily wrong with this ‘grow out of it’ strategy,” it led to “frenzied growth” which “became an increasingly vicious cycle” (14, 15).
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to tell, the facts and deeds of your life to those who might be at all interested. The other function is to discover a truth about yourself that you never had either the time or the courage to face before. You will never investigate yourself as vehemently as you do when you put one word after another, one thought after another, one revelation after another, in the
The Play Goes On
Neil Simon
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