Lately I’ve thought a lot about being in the right mindset to start a new company. Today I’m going to reflect a little of what I’ve come to find about starting and building new companies.

The most interesting point that keeps coming to mind is inherently very simple.

Love what you build, because no matter what, sometimes you will still hate it.

As simple as that principle seems, so many entrepreneurs young and old completely disregard this notion.

There are people reading...

Quite a bit of my time lately has been tied up chatting with companies in all stages.

Some are barely into the idea phase, others have just started to raise seed or friends and family rounds and others have been drudging through the grueling M&A process.

Through all of it there’s not a solitary reminder of the path I’ve chosen in life, but each of the founders I have worked with lately remind me of just a few things I think all of you out there who think you WANT to be...

Recently I was reading Double Tap, Danielle Morril’s most recent post in an ongoing series of them since she quit working on Referly, and one thing really stuck out to me.

Several months back I remembered an exchange between Danielle and another HN user. Interestingly, this HN user was suggesting the system could be gamed at Referly and what I remember even more vividly was Danielle’s response.

“If people can successfully "game” Referly we’d probably try to...