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Flailing Fast is an underground classic chronicaling the story of two young entrepreneurs. I got an earlier version a few months ago, though it may have been floating around the startup scene for longer. The entrepreneurs meet at a networking event, happen upon accidental success with an iPhone fart app, and finally are undone by a combination of ambition (a fart app platform!), investors, and group psychology. Written in business case style, it could only have been written by an MBA, a bitter entrepreneur, or both.

Though optimistic in the end, Flailing Fast seems to ask, are we really so different from these young accidental entrepreneurs?

(Also, the whole thing is free to read online.)



Please ghostwrite my next novel. That summary is way superior to anything I've ever done.


Are we really similar to them?


Probably not... closed a Series A yet?




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