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About A Smart BearStartup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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About A Smart BearStartup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Treat founder time as a scarce, high-value resource—not as free labor. Using a $1,000-per-hour benchmark can expose work that should be eliminated, delegated, automated, or postponed so you can focus on decisions and activities with greater leverage.
A founder’s low-leverage workload creates hidden opportunity costs and can make the company dependent on their constant involvement. Valuing time explicitly improves prioritization and encourages systems that scale beyond the founder.
Review next week’s calendar and ask of each commitment: “Would I knowingly spend $1,000 of founder time on this?” Remove, delegate, automate, or shorten anything that fails the test.
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