La Biblioteca de Andy Wilkinson
Essays from the desk of Andy, a Kiwi explorer learning how to grow a business from anywhere in the world. Entrepreneurship, psychology, life-hacking and philosophy, this is a melting pot of all my interests. | Tumblr: garden.andy.town | Other Work: gallery.andy.town
How we talk about startups
When you think “startup”, a certain image comes to mind. A scrappy young team going from the garage to billionaire-dom overnight. It’s an…intoxicating myth. ¶ But we need to be wary of this myth’s trappings, lest we forget why these startups exist. ¶ When we gossip about startups, we talk about certain things. Who’s raising from whom? How’s so and so’s traction? Did you hear these folks just exited? ¶ We speak of these events as if they’re the point of running a startup. But they are the means, not the end. ¶ The language we use shapes the way that we think — and there is a disconnect: between the language we use for talking…
Andy WilkinsonOct 23, 2015