A Nugget of Entrepreneurial Wisdom
Friday, October 20th, 2006I’ve been meeting a lot of early-stage founders and companies lately - something I love to do. Yesterday, someone pitched me his company, which had identified an interesting and valuable market problem and clearly had some interesting relationshiops, but had no customers, no users, no technology, no proof of concept, and no mockups to show. Their BD lead was a research analyst, and they were in need of significant advice on “what languages and stuff to use” for their platform. He was hoping for an investment of some kind (money, engineers, etc.) from Yahoo!
As supportive as I am of marketplace innovation, I was suddenly reminded of a something I’d dashed down in my Treo but forgotten until then. Said by Farhad Mohit, the inimitable founder of Shopzilla, over beers at DEMO:
“There is no way around suffering like a pig.”
