How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder
Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, shares a detailed look into exactly how he spent 5 years building the company, with reflections on what changed in the transition from very early-stage to scale up.
Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up article. Corcos first published something similar after only two years building Levels. See An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips
Sam Corcos
Content scales, your time does not. Try to do more things in the form of content.
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Delegation, Management, Productivity / Work Tips
Sam Corcos
We’re a memo culture, not a meeting culture, and we put a lot of time into long-form documentation. Why? My belief is that content scales; your time doesn’t. I’ve personally written many hundreds of pages of strategy and documentation to align the team. Keep in mind what content replaces: taking meetings to explain the same material over and over again, emailing people, meetings, calls, seemingly … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Communication, Management, Organizational Behavior
Sam Corcos
Your job as a CEO is to build fire departments, not put out fires. If you’re regularly putting out fires yourself, you’re doing it wrong. Focus your time on how to enable others on your team to put out fires themselves.
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Corporate Governance
Sam Corcos
The problem with to-do lists is they lead to unrealistic optimism about how much you can accomplish because items on a to-do list are untethered from the constraint of reality: time.
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips
Sam Corcos
The most substantial improvement in my ability to manage my time came from using my calendar as my to-do list (and subsequently killing my to-do list).
I used to have the habit of overcommitting myself, which became a major source of anxiety in my life because I was dropping balls left and right, and it led me to disappoint a lot of people when deadlines would … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips
An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building
People often wonder how startup CEOs spend their time. Sam Corcos, the co-founder and CEO of Levels, shares a little about how he spent his time for the first two years, backed up with data. The goal? For folks out there with hopes to become a startup CEO, you can get a behind-the-scenes deep dive into how you might actually spend your time on the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips