About 30 years ago my business partner and I were in the world headquarters of our startup — the second bedroom of my small condo. I had just created a rift between us by investing in a $1000 laptop and a laser printer. An enormous sum of money to a fledgling, bootstrapping, credit card funded startup.
Over the next 20 years we would leverage that investment and countless hours of sweat equity on the part of a magnificent team into a $20,000,000 multinational company.
I’ve often thought about the long and circuitous path of that journey, wondering how to distill it down to a few critical lessons that were most important.
