Anthony Eden – DNSimple – MicroConf Europe 2015 Talk Recap

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Website: dnsimple.com
Twitter: @aeden
Slides:

Talk Recap

• 7 figure revenue
• looks successful from the outside, but
  • conflict with brother/co-founder –> no longer speaking to each other
  • father passed away
  • 7 hour DDoS

lessons learned from going through the lows

• don’t make decisions when you are upset
  • it leads to really bad decisions
  • wait a few days/weeks before making decisions
• get a second, third, fourth opinion
  • from people you can trust
  • join a mastermind group
    • people learn about your business and can give good feedback
• look at all the options
  • avoid tunnel vision
• when things go awry, stay the course
  • things aren’t as bad as you think they are
  • you’re probably doing really well if you’re selling stuff online and talking to customers
  • you’ll weather the storm – not going to be the end of the world
• Every successful business has failures on a daily basis
  • a great business is great at adapting to change and failures
  • it’s not all unicorn, roses and rainbows

-Christoph