How to be a cockroach

This is not a Kafka’s fairy tale but one of my best memories and great learnings from my visit to the US. It was an advice from the mentor Morris Wheeler in the Launch House, a Coworking Space located in Cleveland, Ohio: be a cockroach ! I remember that we laughed collectively after hearing and…

Couldn’t agree more.

Paul Graham mentioned this in 2008 in his “Why to start a startup in a bad economy” essay. The relevant bits:

Fortunately the way to make a startup recession-proof is to do exactly what you should do anyway: run it as cheaply as possible. For years I’ve been telling founders…

Catching a Cockroach

I open the door to my room. I pretty tired, so I am really just looking forward to my bed. It get’s very dark here at night so, although it’s really only 2, maybe 3 meters from the door of my room to my bed, I turn on the light. I glance down at my mobile phone which is laying on the wooden…