Month: January 2025

January 25, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Startup

How many people make a startup?  1?  2? How many ideas do you need to have? Do you need to start with something, anything, and just get going? Do you need funding to support those you work with? Do you need to pay yourself? What are all these things and how do they contribute to what you are doing? The beauty of startups, unlike many other fields, is that they can take any form you want, any direction you want, and any course you plot. It’s all up to you how you do it, either path (and there are many)

January 24, 2025

Greg Thomas

No One’s Going to Give you the Lead

But everyone is going to be hoping you take the lead. That’s how it works. If people knew how to give the lead, they wouldn’t be giving it, they would be running with it, but they can’t, so they are, once again, asking you to lead. The question isn’t whether you can lead, the question is whether you will lead, whether you are going to take the lead and run with it. Once you have the lead, you can run with it, you can make the call, you can give them the trail to follow. But you need to grab

January 23, 2025

Greg Thomas

Your Sounding Board

A Sounding Board is someone you can bounce ideas off of. Someone you can get some advice from when what is in your head doesn’t sound right (or even if it sounds right to confirm what you are thinking). Whether it’s a project, a company, a joint venture – everyone needs a sounding board. With so much work being done remotely, we’ve lost what used to be our ad-hoc sounding boards – running ideas by teammates and suggesting new approaches to new businesses- so it might not feel like you have that sounding board anymore. You do, you just need

January 22, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Team You Want To Be

Who do you want your team to be? More importantly, why do you want them to be that team? It’s great to know who you want them to be, but the question we often miss is why? It’s the why that’s going to help them get to where you want them to be, otherwise you’re giving them no reason to work towards something.

January 21, 2025

Greg Thomas

The First Stumble, is the First Step

You try, you fall. That wasn’t the first step. That was the first attempt. The first starts now. Many don’t take that first step. Those that do, will stumble and fall again, deciding whether they should take that first step again. It’s all first steps, all the time. If you think you’re behind you’re not, as you stumble, there are less and less of us willing to take those first steps. Keep stumbling, keep stepping.

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