One thing I learned the hard way in my first startup is—when you are the…
Pascal FinetteApril 30, 2015
I hear a variation of the following statement from entrepreneurs all the time—typically delivered with…
Pascal FinetteApril 16, 2015
Google famously brought Eric Schmidt on board to provide "adult supervision" for Larry & Sergey.…
Pascal FinetteApril 13, 2015
A while ago management guru, Peter Drucker, wrote the definitive definition of a business: There…
Pascal FinetteMarch 20, 2015
At Singularity University I was in the incredibly lucky situation to build a team pretty…
Pascal FinetteMarch 16, 2015
As we are gearing up for the launch of our inaugural accelerator cohort here at…
Pascal FinetteMarch 5, 2015
This post goes over the team, advisor, finance, and business model, and the ask slides…
Pascal FinetteFebruary 26, 2015
In 2015 we need you to focus on the things that matter, and relentless focus means saying “No” quite a bit.
Pascal FinetteJanuary 7, 2015
Go out and mentor someone. Even if you think you're too young or inexperienced, or that you don't have anything to give quite yet, trust me—there is always someone a step (or more) behind you who will learn an incredible amount from you.
Pascal FinetteNovember 28, 2014
So many people in startup land go with the crowd and, thus, create the umm-teenth version of something that already exists. The supposedly smarter ones go against the crowd, which is not much better, as their theory of change is simply based on negating what everybody else is doing.
Pascal FinetteNovember 22, 2014
It might not be something you want to spend time on, but company culture is what makes your company—even if you don’t have one, you have one.
Pascal FinetteNovember 19, 2014
Although daunting, serial entrepreneur, coach, and venture capitalist, Pascal Finette, challenges the typical startup to go to scale—arguing that it's the only way how you can build truly great companies and change the world.
Pascal FinetteSeptember 15, 2014
The head of Singularity University’s Startup Lab on why you should thank the person who gave you feedback first because they just gave you a huge gift—they told you something which you can use to become better at what you're doing and become a better person in general.
Pascal FinetteSeptember 10, 2014
There are no trophies for creating the most connections while networking. Stop thinking of it as a sport and remember the value of creating genuine relationships.
Pascal FinetteJuly 7, 2014
You have this one lifetime of potential happiness, and you'd be a fool to bet on anything less than going for it! Are you willing to wager on your happiness?
Pascal FinetteJune 25, 2014
Fear of failure is why some of the best companies are never built, why some of the most important discoveries are never made and why people spend forty years in jobs they hate. So, ask yourself: what's the worst that can happen?
Pascal FinetteJune 19, 2014
If there is a single thing, a single activity and a single metric you should care about when building a business (or a sustainable open project – which you should run like a business anyway), it is cash-flow.
Pascal FinetteApril 3, 2014