Hack, Hustle & Flow
Sprout Up just passed and it’s getting better every month. Micah Baldwin was a guest speaker and he f-ing killed it. His #followfriday story was wicked but my favourite thing he said was, the perfect startup team is one hacker and one hustler.
Part of my reason for loving this is, the Hipsell team, is that team. When it comes down to it, Aron is a hacker and I’m a hustler. I have an advertising and design background and am also a designer which is a bonus. Aron has some nice design chops too so we’ve got the basics covered.
Although I truly believe what Micah said and that Aron and I have what it takes to kill it, you still need some flow. There’s only so much you can do with friends and family money or bootstrapping. Raising a proper seed round of financing, say 200k and up is a huge a needed boost.
If you can’t run for 18 months, it’s going to be a lot tougher. Now all startups are different, please don’t get me wrong, I still believe one guy in his moms garage can make it happen. What I’m really saying here is flow is also very important.
Another valuable asset is ones network. We all know this but do we utilize it as well as we should? Just now I’m thinking to myself, I need to tap my network more and deeper. There’s no real replacement for expertise either. If more startups could put together a wicked advisory board or get into an accelerator program, the more success we’d see.
I’d like to thank all the angels, early stage VC’s, accelerators and anyone supporting startups. My friends and family also deserve a big thanks for supporting me throughout my startup life. I bring it back to flow. There’s only so much hacking and hustling a team could do without flow. To more flow.
