Salmon Cannons and Startup Ideas

A Litmus Test for Founders

Clint Gordon-Carroll
Nov 1 · 3 min read
Does your product swim upstream? NPS Photo/Russ Taylor

After ten plus years of product development, I have finally realized the fatal flaw in much of my thinking when it comes to good and bad ideas. I have often scrolled through the endless TechCrunch feed of startup news, skimming and judging new startups like a bored twenty-something-year-old on Tinder.

That’s a dumb idea! Nope, not gonna…

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Clint Gordon-Carroll

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Clint is a serial entrepreneur based in SLC, currently working on a startup to kill the year-end performance review and help teams achieve greatness.

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