Being boring

0:03 Welcome to business purpose and clarity with petri I'm your host we talk about startup life insights practical tips mistakes failures and everything between what is so frequent what is so ordinary that it's so boring pets opposed had a song in the late 80s early 90s about being bored business is often so boring business people are often so boring products are so boring everything is so boring don't be boring that should be the end of this episode because that's the essence of it but because you may be the boring one your product may be the boring thing and I give you the benefit of a doubt.

1:08 That you don't know any better or maybe you haven't recognized maybe you were just copying the others maybe you think you're doing the right thing maybe you were not bold enough as of now to stick out become yourself have some character have some backstory have some color have some have some voice have some strength to go your own way become your own leadership like product company and person who is fun to be around who gives for the.

2:12 Grey monday mornings pouring tuesdays everyday shopping everyday business decisions everyday greatness that's so much around us it may not take more money be more expensive to do things differently it just takes a bit more slight inspiration may be a small notch to do things a bit differently come out of the closet in a sense that you don't need to be the boring cooperation who have lost the vision and the purpose after the founder left many many many years ago maybe even decades ago and now it's just a.

3:17 Ship at sea which is going somewhere but nobody really knows why but it just keeps on going because it's so big and it used to be around and people are just used to buy things because that's what they did in the early days when it was fun delightful and exciting when that company that founder brought the the new new thing at the time but now it's just part of the same old talking about startup founders and new exciting stuff not all dusty old company stuff old products old markets many of the are doing boring stuff.

4:22 In a boring way if you're doing your fundraising most likely your deck is boring if you're doing some kind of a sales most likely you are not different from the x mobile phone company called nokia who was maybe in the 2000s I think it wasn't in 2000s called the powerpoint palace they david just churning out a lot of pouring power points with a lot of bullet points maybe some clip art are you any different don't be boring do something fun be exciting makes people my smile be the leader.

5:25 The market lead the funny one the one everybody remembers with a smile.