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Equal time should be put into the commercial go-to-market approach and the product design and development. Startups need both technical and commercial co-founders. Indeed, this is one of my strict investing criteria for the startups I’ve invested in.
Assessing the Suitability of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Calculation of Emissions From Public Cloud Computing Workloads
davidmytton.blog
Instead of telling people what I think of a proposal, a product, a feature, whatever, I ask them instead what they think. Were they thrilled with it? Absolutely love it? Most of the time I would hear, “It's okay,” or “It's not bad.” They would surmise from my facial expression that this wasn't the answer I was looking for. Come back when you are bursting with excitement about whatever you are proposing to the rest of us.
The word “sympathy” shares the same root as “empathy”—they both come from the Greek word pathos, which roughly means “feeling” or something that appeals to the emotions (according to Aristotle’s use of the word). The difference between the two words is in the prefix. Sympathy starts with sym-, meaning “together.” Sympathy means “feeling together.” Our emotions fuse with those of the person we sympathize with. We see things from their perspective. A certain degree of agreement is implied.
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