Comments on: Passion is Not Emotion.

By: Micah Baldwin

Micah Baldwin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:16:05 +0000

Thats definately true. There is a case where entreprenuers sole passion is “success,” which for many mean fame and fortune. So rather than look at what they are doing logically and rationally, they consume all advice as good advice.

I have a post sitting in my head that deals with an underrated skill that top startup people and VCs have in spades: The ability to vett ideas quickly and rationally.

So many people underestimate the importance of learning to say no with authority.

By: micah

micah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:16:00 +0000

I have a post sitting in my head that deals with an underrated skill that top startup people and VCs have in spades: The ability to vett ideas quickly and rationally.

So many people underestimate the importance of learning to say no with authority.

By: Micah Baldwin

Micah Baldwin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:05:50 +0000

its short hand for be quxotic. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=quixotic

The concept is that sometimes entreprenuers are doing something crazy and stupid and sometimes it just looks crazy and stupid. A real entreprenuer knows the difference…

By: micah

micah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:05:00 +0000

its short hand for be quxotic. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=quixotic

The concept is that sometimes entreprenuers are doing something crazy and stupid and sometimes it just looks crazy and stupid. A real entreprenuer knows the difference…

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:08 +0000

Nice post Micah. You make a good point here, and its really a fine line between the two. As someone who’s been through Techstars, I can tell you there are more dynamics than passion v. emotion that impact a company’s ability to adapt and make progress, but a lot of reasons teams don’t adapt could be pointed to some kind of emotional response blocking their ability to act on feedback, listen to their instincts, etc.

There is an inverse conversation here too, which is around the situations where teams are passionate, but clueless and listen to everything they are told and end up with no focus. Maybe your next post is “Passion is not focus” ;-)

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0000

By: Josh McHugh

Josh McHugh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:41:59 +0000

Should be “tilting *at* windmills.” I think he means something between “chase unreasonable goals” and “chase impossible goals.”

By: Josh McHugh

Josh McHugh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:41:00 +0000

Should be “tilting *at* windmills.” I think he means something between “chase unreasonable goals” and “chase impossible goals.”

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:19:03 +0000

What does that mean exactly – tilt windmills?

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:19:00 +0000

What does that mean exactly – tilt windmills?

By: Micah Baldwin

Micah Baldwin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:14:48 +0000

Whats interesting is the loss of rationality by young entrepreneurs. On one hand, its what allows folks to tilt windmills, on the other, its what allows folks to tilt windmills.

By: micah

micah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:14:00 +0000

Whats interesting is the loss of rationality by young entrepreneurs. On one hand, its what allows folks to tilt windmills, on the other, its what allows folks to tilt windmills.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:04:16 +0000

Coming in the next release ;)

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:04:00 +0000

Coming in the next release ;)

By: louisgray

louisgray — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:03:16 +0000

Due to the flow here, I was looking for the “like” button on your comment.