Mike McDermant, CEO if Freshbooks, wrote a great blog post today, 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks.
Mike has led Freshbooks to a great place over the last few years, having built a great product sooths a point of pain for many people, myself included. I highly recommend that you check both this post and his product out. The 7 ways? Well:
- Thinking we had to move faster than we did
- Placing my faith in a spreadsheet
- Thinking we had to spend more than we did
- Placing my faith in consultants
- Underestimating word of mouth
- Believing we could not get this far without doing “x”
- Doubting ourselves too much
For full details, see his post.
Thanks, Mike, for being so open about this. A lot of startup CEOs could learn from your experiences
