Like them or not, these kinds of exaggerations and not-quite-lies are common in business for a good reason: if customers, partners, investors, and/or employees ever perceive a company as a failure, they will start leaving the company. Once a company starts losing customers, partners, investors, and/or top people, it can quickly find itself in a downward spiral that is extremely difficult to reverse.
When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not the positive spin is just a sincere effort to generate momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities and stomach-churning odds of entrepreneurship.
What that woman profiled in TechCrunch did, however, was very different: she crossed the line.
> When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not these white lies are nothing more than a sincere effort to generate positive momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities of entrepreneurship.
Which is why talk is cheap. Anyone can bullshit, startup founder or no.
When it comes to entrepreneurs specifically, more often than not the positive spin is just a sincere effort to generate momentum 'out of thin air' when facing the harsh realities and stomach-churning odds of entrepreneurship.
What that woman profiled in TechCrunch did, however, was very different: she crossed the line.