Drawing a Line Everyday
This past week I sent an email to one of our portfolio companies, PBwiki, that really demonstrated the daily grind that is life at a start-up. Every day you have to find a way to make progress and move the ball forward. Here is the meat of email:
I was reading yesterday a passage from Pliny the Elder (a Roman philosopher and author) and one line jumped out at me: Nulla dies sine linea. “Nulla dies sine linea” means “Not a day without drawing a line.” The reason I thought about this is that I wondered what “drawn line” did we etch today. Life at a start-up at our stage is about winning battles one by one and although this week was not an easy one, it was one where we continued to “draw lines”.Everyday you have to find a way to make progress. Improve your product. Improve your support. Attract that new client. Make a new line, and move the game forward.
