Founding Team Members Should be Pigs, Not Chickens

When I taught at the Sloan School at MIT nearly two decades ago, the then-Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken Morse, used to tell students, “Entrepreneurs should be pigs not chickens.” I was reminded of that line last week when I decided not to invest in a great startup I had the opportunity to back.

Ken is probably the greatest salesman I have ever met and he has a knack for coming up with lines that sum up entrepreneurship in a memorable way. (Another time I will discuss his acronym CIMITYM — “cash is more important than your mother.”)

Founding Team Members Should be Pigs, Not Chickens