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Parent meets Founder: When life feels overwhelming navigating yourself back to your children and their needs helps drive prioritisation. Start-up overwhelm, navigating back to the customer, their needs helps me refocus on what’s real. Grounding as a Parent and grounding as a

Your moral principles and your economic interests won't always be aligned. What you do when they're not is a test of character.

For an early stage company, a high quality customer is probably worth 10x an average customer. i.e. I think it's better to have 100k of ARR from Ramp Wiz Perplexity OpenAI etc than 1M of ARR from more typical companies.

One of my early memories of starting &Open with Jonathan is a pitch to a bunch of older men in suits in a civil service building in Dublin. The main feedback 'why were we dressed for a summer bbq'. NDRC is providing a relevant environment for founders to start in Ireland.

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman telling the hard truths.

One of the very few things investors can do to help founders is be a rock for them in their inevitable low moments.

Person in tech that has “taste” starter pack

Get yourself a seed investor who sends you gifts to mark the year! Hayley Bay Barna First Round 🙌 (extra points for gifting through a local vendor)

Got excited about a vendor and a specific gift and tried to gift a group of people NOT using &Open What an absolute nightmare and waste of time & money. Experiencing the pain point you are solving was the silver lining however 🫠

In VC it is easy to imagine “everything that can go wrong”. The real skill is having: 1) the ability to imagine “everything that can go right” and 2) the ability to assess whether the founder has the fortitude to overcome everything that will inevitably go wrong along the way.

Sabine Hossenfelder This is why we always tell startups that if they buy merch with their name on it, buy the highest quality things. Otherwise it will sit on a shelf.

If you need training, Do not join an early stage start-up If you need help setting up your computer, Do not join an early stage start-up If you want to spend your first month ‘getting up to speed’, Do not join an early stage start-up If you want max out your time off, Do not

J says you can’t teach taste 😂

We need more designers starting companies! Building a company is the ultimate design challenge and finally a chance to build things exactly the way you always wished

heavily underrated: trying hard

An often forgotten secret hack in business is that you can just ask for exactly what you want directly and politely and not play 3d chess about it.

Roughly one third of a modern CEO's job is trying to find that fucking Slack conversation you were in earlier

WOW. What an incredible email to get on Sunday morning as I’m mentally heading into next week trying to figure out how I make every meeting/event work. Though I’m covered and won’t need this generous help, the gesture was meaningful. Bravo Dogpatch Labs NDRC 👏

The older I get the more I value this quality. The ability to speak and be curious in someone else, just because, my favourite type of person in fact ✨

Framed and on my walls! Really special to get this from Karri Saarinen and the Linear team One of the more thoughtful startup gifts I’ve received ❤️