A frustration about meetings
<p>First, on me, I am an ex-consultant, ex-corporate with about 9 years of work experience. Since I left my corporate job last year, I have been wandering around the start-up world. I launched <a href="https://codebeautify.org/%22https://surprise.date/%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Surprise.date</a>, <a href="https://codebeautify.org/%22https://dogswelcome.in/%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Dogswelcome</a> and some smaller ‘idea balloons’. I also participated in the <a href="https://codebeautify.org/%22https://antler.co/%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Antler</a> accelerator program this summer. And it is this adventure that taught me about proper product-market fit validation.</p>
<p>And while I can spend a whole book on the lessons learned at Antler (I validated about 37 ideas in eight weeks), overall it is interesting to recognize that ideas that seemed obvious at the start, did not make sense from a unit economics perspective. Likewise, there were ideas that in theory could make tons of money, but would be hard to sell (think corporate). But as I went through my validation, the process always involved meeting people. Get introduced, build a relationship and find common ground to move forward. Some of these meetings brought forth great energy, others depleted it.</p>
<h1>It made me wonder: what drives meeting effectiveness?</h1>
<p>It made me think back of my years in consultancy. Improving meeting facilitation skills was always hammered on. At the client, it was always us, the consultants, chairing meetings. Only once I moved into corporate life, I understood we chaired meetings not because of our role and price tag, but because we were good at it. And it makes sense, I too never learned about running meetings in school. And it didn’t even seem to correlate with corporate experience. Even at the highest level I witnessed going into too many details and the impact of hierarchy.</p>
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