Challenge accepted! Sir Branson wrote a 16-line poem of rhyming couplets, expounding on his views about business. For example, he isn’t one of those “morals don’t belong in the boardroom” tycoons: Make bold moves, but always play fair,Always say please and thank you – it’s cool to care. And he knows that it’s tempting to fret over whether you’ll be successful: Now, stop worrying about whether your business will be a hit,Rise to the challenge and say ‘screw it, let’s do it!’ (Read the full poem here.) Have other entrepreneurs waxed lyrical about the startup life, I wondered? It turns out Branson isn’t the only one to use verse to express his feelings on market disruption and the road to success. Below are three other startup-related poems you might want to check out:
“Love My Startup More Than You” by CEO Rizwan Virk
Towards you my sweetheart I’ll always feelA neverending attractionBut right now what I really need to showIs more customer traction! Read more…
“A Very Startup Christmas” by MindSumo
Christmas Eve could not even dispel all the gloomPast investors now acted like “angels” of doomThe founders bemoaned their missed chance to be wealthyWhile their “rockstar” developers took ill-advised selfies. Read more…
“Startups” by Flid
You can age a couple decades in just a few yearsJust trying to get over all of your fears… Read more… What with all the drama and humor in the startup world, you’d think there would be even more startup poetry out there. Anyone want to give it a go? Image credit: By D@LY3D [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
