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The Eight Most Important Things You Need To Do As A Startup CEO
I was visiting with my Mom the other day. My Mom said to me, “I found this picture from years ago. Do you remember it?”
I looked at the picture and smiled. I did remember it from when I was a little boy. It was a picture depicting my Mom with eight arms like an octopus might have.
The analogy is obvious: Moms need eight arms to get everything done and so do you as a startup CEO.
You need to be seemingly everywhere at the same time to be a successful startup CEO.
There is no one most important thing you need to do. At any given time, that most important thing might be one or more of the following:
A. You need to be raising money.
One thing you realize pretty quickly is that you are always in fundraising mode when you are a startup CEO. You need to have your pitch down because you never know when you might meet a potential investor.
Then it’s go time, and you’d better be ready or the opportunity is lost. And, when you’re not raising money…
