Having founded and run CB Insights certainly helped mostly cuz I had some sense of where to focus.
In this case, we had product-market fit to use a tech term. My dad's product was great.
And so I didn't need to worry about that. If I had to worry about that, this probably doesn't unfold as it did.
That meant I just had to worry about 2 things:
1. Making sure we were buying raw materials at rates that allowed us to sell the product profitably
2. 'Ringing the register' aka making sales. And that ultimately is not intellectually hard but just requires effort, i.e. researching, calling, emailing, etc.
Hey. This is completely unrelated but I wanted to ask if you provide an RSS feed for your blog? I did find a /feed page but I'm unsure if it's working.
I just started getting a few texts from friends saying 'your post is on HN' and was confused. Prob been 10 years since anything I wrote has been on here so was an unexpected surprise especially as the comments are almost all quite nice (didn't expect that :)
Let's say he was a software dev, no team lead, no manager, individual contributor. How would things play out?