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My choice to do the work: Joining The General Partnership
My choice to do the work: Joining The General Partnership
I’m joining The General Partnership
Phin Barnes
Feb 23, 2022
Meditation on power and insecurity
Meditation on power and insecurity
Watching the train wreck of Donald Trump and looking for something to learn from it, I started thinking about power and the way folks…
Phin Barnes
Nov 12, 2020
Near miss or clear miss?
Near miss or clear miss?
So you missed your metrics — it’s ok. When you lead a startup, you will miss. No one has ever done what you are doing and you have to…
Phin Barnes
Oct 15, 2020
The 3 VC’s you’ll meet on Monday
The 3 VC’s you’ll meet on Monday
It’s Friday, and many folks are looking forward to a couple days off the screens that dominate our lives these days — but for a ton of…
Phin Barnes
Oct 2, 2020
A Small Sign of Big Growth for a CEO
A Small Sign of Big Growth for a CEO
In my house we have a doorway that is covered in pencil marks — they measure my daughter’s height in somewhat random increments from the…
Phin Barnes
Sep 17, 2020
Checklist Manifesto
Checklist Manifesto
Over the last few weeks I have been able to spend time with a bunch of individual investors (aka “solo capitalists”) learning about their…
Phin Barnes
Sep 14, 2020
I’m thankful for being perfect and you should be too
Perfect is not a state of being, it is something you achieve for a few moments each day with a strong practice. Be thankful when it…
Phin Barnes
Nov 22, 2019
Your old data could be hiding the secret to Product Market Fit
Your old data could be hiding the secret to Product Market Fit
Grinding to find product market fit is a normal operating paradigm when you start a company. The discontinuous nature of hunting this beast…
Phin Barnes
Aug 28, 2019
Zero zeros
Zero zeros
The CEO job is to to get started and go from Zero to one — but quickly it becomes maximizing the product of the complex multiplication…
Phin Barnes
Aug 20, 2019
Self-confidence is the foundation of focus — to get more done, take time for yourself.
Self-confidence is the foundation of focus — to get more done, take time for yourself.
The best founders I work with spend their time on a power law curve — almost all their attention is placed on the very few things that…
Phin Barnes
Jun 5, 2019
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