Her nose is too big to be a STAR (week5 of 2020)

It’s all in the execution. The theme of this week has been illuminated in many ways but the essence is that no matter how great I think my company will be and no matter how innovative the products might be, HOW we roll it out, HOW we communicate the brilliance of the idea and HOW we retain users turning them into subscribers is the real running of the business. The execution of the idea.

This is where a movie I saw (twice) became applicable. The remake of A STAR IS BORN is a A great idea can be 

No way in hell should Ally or Louise St James be successful brands but they execute with a combination of passion and

And there is no way that Bradley Cooper’s A STAR IS BORN should be a hit. Between his mumbling and script-less improv, the “we don’t know exactly what we are going to say but we will get to the meaning of the scene and we all know what it is” attitude, it should be another painful remake. But it’s not. The unity among the crew and the cast is seamless and

The execution includes: original music by Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga and Willie Nelson’s son, Lukas. They add to the script as if its an opera and there is no distinction between the scenes and the songs. The continuity is endless. The songs are genre specific and illuminate the book scenes elegantly.

Another huge lesson this week in our cohort meeting with savvy guest speaker Jay Whitehead was the contents of a term sheet and the concept of how to gear your pitch to a term sheet that is tailored for the investor in front of you. The Pitch is becoming a huge part of my day as I tell people what I do and it is way more difficult to tell the story of my venture when I am standing in the vortex of the storm.

Props to Bradley Cooper and Mark Gold for connecting these things in my head. I think they are related, do you?