Guy has a guest post today from Glenn, founder of Redfin, a web 2.0 real state site. Glenn goes over the crazy things start-up CEOs put themselves though mentally and otherwise.
Here’s some quotes:
“The megalomaniac pleasure of creation,” the psychoanalyst Edmund Berger wrote, “produces a type of elation which cannot be compared with that experienced by other mortals.”
“Start-ups are freak-catchers.”
“Fearless leaders are often terrified.”
“Even in the darkest of the Dark Ages, people were nostalgic for…the Dark Ages. Start-ups are like medieval monasteries: always convinced that paradise is just ahead or that things only recently got worse.”
“If you don’t believe you have any reliable competitive advantage, you’re the kind of insecure person who will work your competition into the ground, so keep working.”
“A Sequoia partner once told me that competition only starts when you hit $100 million in revenues.”
Hoo Ha! Good stuff- read it and reap.