Walt SpenceNo. 040

Topics

Entrepreneurship

Building things that pay, and the parts of startup culture worth keeping.

2011Publishing history, charted as a night's sleep · 2026

Notes

2

  1. 2015 What EnLab is Not Why EnLab refused to be called a startup, a SaaS company, an app studio or a web shop. essay · revised698 words
  2. What Bootstrapping Actually Looked Like On hustle culture, the gap between the lifestyle being sold and the life being lived, and what it actually looked like for me. essay · revised1,176 words

Thoughts

3

  1. Remote work isn’t new. We ran EnLab as a distributed team in 2015. What’s new is that managers can’t hide behind the office anymore.

  2. quote

    Take a whole day and make a good inventory of what’s positive in your life and what’s negative.

    → Embrace the Rain: Ten Years of Lessons

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    There are way too many articles selling a lifestyle that doesn’t exist for everyone in this startup community.

    → What Bootstrapping Actually Looked Like