It’s our annual tradition to share this poem in lieu of the usual Startup activities post during the week of Christmas. We hope you enjoy it! In the meantime, if you’d like to stay connected with other founders during the holiday break, our StartupSac Community group on Facebook is a great way to do that. And if you’re not yet signed up for the Sacramento Startup Digest, a free weekly email that rounds up the best events for founders, you can do that here.
A Startup Christmas Story
by Laura Good
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through Sactown,
Startup founders were sighing and feeling beat down.
Entrepreneurship’s hard, it’s no 9 to 5;
It takes massive energy just to survive.
Eric Ries wrote their bible, schooled them on lean.
They quickly became validation machines!
They hustled and bustled to build, measure, learn.
They collected data that caused them concern.
“Do we pivot or not? What should be chucked?
What secret sauce makes an idea disrupt?”
“Oh how can we scale?,” they were heard to exclaim.
“We need a growth hacker and a killer domain.”
“Our vision is clear: we are the next Unicorn,
Or The Uber of X, but we’re feeling forlorn.”
Although waxing dismayed as the year end approached,
They leveraged their networks to be refreshed and coached.
With passions ignited and their spirits uplifted,
The sound we now heard was of attitudes shifted.
“With our roadmap in hand to show us the way,
We’re setting our caps for a fat Series A!”
