Hey friends 👋
Every Friday at noon Pacific, I go live to talk startups and answer your questions.
Yesterday, Cameron hopped on and we talked pivots. Not in the abstract, “oh we pivoted!” kind of way — but in the real, messy, traction-is-slipping-and-we-need-to-act kind of way.
We covered:
The 3 types of startup pivots (minor, major, and existential)
How to know which kind of pivot you’re making
Why so many founders communicate pivots to investors terribly — and how to tell the story well
What actually happens after an experiment doesn’t work
The real reason so many startups quietly drift off course (without realizing it)
And if you’ve been quietly stacking minor pivots that are nudging you off the path to your milestone… consider this your sign to take a beat and reassess.
Join me Fridays at noon PST in the Substack app for live office hours. And if you’ve got a sticky startup question in the meantime, drop it in the comments and I’ll tackle it in the next session.
Have a fantastic weekeend.
—jdm
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