Have you ever been in a super stressful situation that afterwards, when things had calmed down, possibly weeks or months later felt like it was part of a dream or a movie? Well startups can be a lot like that especially around critical events such as a potential financing or sale of a company or a product launch. I have been calling it the “Fog of Startups” after the expression the “Fog of War” but as I will point out in a minute that analogy is problematic. Why did I think of this analogy in...

Have you ever been in a super stressful situation that afterwards, when things had calmed down, possibly weeks or months later felt like it was part of a dream or a movie? Well startups can be a lot like that especially around critical events such as a potential financing or sale of a company or a product launch. I have been calling it the “Fog of Startups” after the expression the “Fog of War” but as I will point out in a minute that analogy is problematic. Why did I think of this analogy in...