In a startup nothing happens
unless you make it happen.
“In an established company —
no matter how poorly run or demoralized — things happen. They just happen. “They
just happen. People come in to work. Code gets written. User interfaces get
designed. Servers get provisioned. Markets get analyzed. Pricing gets studied
and determined. Sales calls get made. The wastebaskets get emptied. And so on.
A startup has none of the
established systems, rhythms, infrastructure that any established company has.
In a startup it is very easy
for the code to not get written, for the user interfaces to not get designed…
for people to not come into work… and for the wastebaskets to not get emptied.
You as the founder have to
put all of these systems and routines and habits in place and get everyone
actually rowing — forget even about rowing in the right direction: just rowing
at all is hard enough at the start.
And until you do, absolutely
nothing happens.
Unless, of course, you do it
yourself.
Have fun emptying those
wastebaskets.”
Excerpt From: Marc
Andreessen. “The Pmarca Blog Archives.”