The Surprising Virtue of Brutal Honesty in Startup Culture

There’s a reason why honest feedback is so rare in the startup world.

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An entrepreneur was in my office asking for advice on his startup, and I gave him exactly what he wanted: I spent most of the hour-long conversation critiquing him and his company. By the end of the meeting, once he’d digested all my feedback, he…