"Waking up with integrity is always worth it just not always in $." - @Mer__edith

#tech
#layoffs
#entrepreneruship
#quotes

Here's a gratuitous late morning coffee cup shit on this wonderfully slow Sunday morning. Next up? Some Coda buttons.

#sundaymusings #coffeemugs #coffee #taxodon #taxtwitter #taxseason2023loading #coda #crm #entrepreneruship #entrepeneurlife #accountinglife

Meaningful lesson from Steve Jobs:

Tong also asked about life lessons that have stood out to Cook. He responded that Steve Jobs taught him that “the joy is in the journey. You know I always used to think about the next thing, and always sort of put off the happiness until the next thing occurs. And of course the next thing never occurs. But he taught me the joy is in the journey.”

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/18/tim-cook-favorite-lesson-from-steve-jobs/

#apple
#tech
#entrepreneruship
#management
#stevejobs
#timcook
#timapple

I ordered a five pound bag of gummy bears to help me get through extension deadlines.

We might finally be at the end of the bag.

#taxodon #taxtwitter #taxprofessionals #entrepreneruship

Today we went to the zoo. It was the whole day . It was glorious and restful and exhausting. I ignored my everything all day. I'm afraid of tomorrow. But for today, it was worth it.

#TaxTwitter #taxprofessionals #taxodon #entrepreneruship #momlife

I am the tech person in this partnership, so all the coding, tech, and product (the software side) is my responsibility. He’s the electrical engineer building the appliance. For the first time in 25 years after building a ton of service-based products, it is nice to be working on something I can actually hold in my hands!

#product #engineering #entrepreneruship

"The brand goal is also simple. The weakest element of our brand is innovation, which is a vulnerable position for us as a technology company dependent on recruiting the best engineers to build the future. Having an innovative brand will pay dividends not only in recruiting but therefore across all out products and other efforts as well." - 2015 06 22 Mark's vision

https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-VISION

#meta
#facebook
#innovation
#virtualreality
#ar
#vr
#entrepreneruship
#tech

"There are always a thousand things that can go wrong and sink the ship. If you focus too much on them, you will drive yourself nuts and likely crash your company. Focus on where you are going rather than on what you hope to avoid."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"Perhaps the most important thing that I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"There is no such thing as a great executive. There is only a great executive for a specific company at a specific point in time."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad. With any design, you will optimize communication among some parts of the organization at the expense of other parts."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"While it may work to have individual employees who optimize for their own careers, counting on senior managers to do all the right things for all the wrong reasons is a dangerous idea."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"Sun Tzu, in his classic work The Art of War, warns that giving the team a task that it cannot possibly perform is called crippling the army."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#startups​
#technology​

"Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line, and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. A good product manager is the CEO of the product. Good product managers take full responsibility and measure themselves in terms of the success of the product."

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading​
#entrepreneruship
#technology​
#productmanagement

The answer to "How much money did you make?" is always, "Who wants to know?" If it's an investor, the answer is "A lot." If it's a customer, the answer is "A little." If it's the IRS, the answer is "None."

#tax
#law
#entrepreneruship

Being a good company doesn’t matter when things go well, but it can be the difference between life and death when things go wrong.

Things always go wrong.

Being a good company is an end in itself.

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading
#entrepreneruship
#startups
#technology

“We take care of the people, the products, and the profits—in that order.”

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading
#entrepreneruship
#startups
#technology

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

#nowreading
#entrepreneruship
#startups
#technology