HeyJaredGrowing Up Startup
I share lessons from my 20-year journey as a tech founder—scaling startups, making tough decisions, and balancing life. Whether you're an entrepreneur or a rising leader, get honest insights, practical advice, and mindset shifts to fuel your success.
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You Have to Say Something (opens the original)
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Last winter, the pothole in front of our house got ridiculously big.Our kids loved the giant puddle it made when it rained. The rest of us on the street – not so much. It was impossible to dodge it when backing out of the driveway.For about a year, my husband and I complained about the pothole to each other. I’m sure our neighbors were doing the same. We assumed it would just be there forever because isn’t that what potholes do?Eventually, it annoyed us enough that we submitted a request to the
You’re Good at It. So What? (opens the original)
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One of my husband’s professors in music school gave his students a great piece of career advice:If you love music, consider not making it your career.His point was that turning something you love into something you have to do can fundamentally change your relationship with it.When you need to practice whether you feel like it or not, perform music you didn’t choose, and earn enough money from it to pay your bills, music is no longer just the thing you love.It’s your job.That doesn’t necessarily
Q&A: Which Marketing Channel Should I Focus On? (opens the original)
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Q: I’m an early-stage founder and feel like I’m supposed to be everywhere: LinkedIn, Instagram, email, events, partnerships, paid ads. I don’t have the time or budget to do it all well. How do I know which marketing channel to focus on?I get versions of this question a lot.And there isn’t one channel I can point to and say, “That one. Go do that.”It depends on what you’re building, how early you are, who you’re trying to reach, and where those people already spend their time.But I’d ac
Three Years, 157 Posts, and Nearly 130,000 Words (opens the original)
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Growing Up Startup is three years old!For three years, I have published a post every week without missing one.That is 157 posts and 129,637 words.For context, that is roughly three times the length of my book, Designing Success – proof that microsessions of 800-ish-word posts a week add up!To mark the anniversary, I finally did something I’ve wanted to do for a while: I assembled all 157 posts in one place and asked ChatGPT to analyze the complete archive.Time, People, and Work</s
Work Cat Is Back (opens the original)
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Back in June, I wrote about Summer Cat’s arrival.Summer Cat knows that when the kids are out of school, vacations are planned, and the days are long, productivity will take a hit. She embraces it. She lowers expectations. She goes to the pool… a lot.Summer Cat had a good run.Last week alone included tie-dying, the farm, grandparent visits, Sesame Place, and a lot of squeezing the last bits out of summer.But some
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