Here’s everything I’ve learned about angel investing in the past 8 years since I made my first one. I’ve invested in Cruise, Ginkgo Bioworks, Razorpay, Bird, and 100 more companies.↗

What are the best blog posts and podcasts to learn about marketplaces?↗

One trend I’m watching closely is technology that connects people w/ experts Platforms like @BookCameo can start with shoutouts and evolve to answer substantive questions for your business & personal goals Replace executive coaches w/ experts that align to each goal↗

Consider two frameworks: The Peter Thiel approach + Keith Rabois approach Thiel - pick a niche they can monopolize and expand outwards from there Rabois - go “horizontal” - find trillion dollar markets + build full-stack, vertically integrated solutions. Go big or go home.↗

Fun game for investment nerds: If you had $1000 to invest in any private or public companies, how would you allocate your capital? Time horizon to return capital is 10 years. Let's hear your strategies.↗

1/ If you don’t have product-market fit, your startup is fucked. You probably don’t have it if: You aren’t growing You have high churn Your product is hard to sell Customers don’t seem to care that much Here are some simple steps to find product-market fit↗

Here’s how to build a company (or really do anything challenging) while being happy: 1/ Realize that if you achieve your goal, you actually won’t be any happier than you are right now. This is easy to say but hard to do. Set a reminder to meditate on this every day.↗

There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.↗

The Dumb Idea Paradox. Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. Thread 👇↗

@tinvaan I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise stay off SV's radar. In other words, be the opposite of a scenester.↗

New post! Over 30% of Americans now regularly listen to podcasts, and here’s my (with inputs from consumer team and research) 68-page overview + investment analysis on the industry. Thread 👇 a16z.com/2019/05/23/pod…↗

What’s your biggest questions about getting started with no-code?↗

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. —@naval↗

One of the trends I'm most excited about is the democratization of b2b technology. Let's discuss. 1/↗

1/ LinkedIn is the New Craigslist: the same unbundling that happened to Craigslist is now about to happen to LinkedIn. Read more here: link.medium.com/QWIskQtqvW↗

Getting married in a week... any advice team?↗

When startups think a partnership with some big company will be the silver bullet that makes them grow, they're usually mistaken. What makes you grow is building amazing things and making customers love you.↗

Teach people Retool / Airtable / Zapier / Figma / Clay on one end of a marketplace and create easy ways for companies to hire these people as freelancers and onboard them into existing systems for projects (could even be done through API) on the other end↗

Morals of the @zoom_us entrepreneurial fable:↗

11 angel investing lessons venturehacks.com/articles/11-le…↗

Indie hackers, what services do you use that are worth every penny?↗

Who is writing, thinking, talking about low code/no code? 💻↗

1/ "You can name people who are richer than Rich Barton, but you can’t name very many people who have his track record. You will find very few people in this country who have as many times created something from nothing.” Nick Hanauer. A chapter on Barton: …↗

Check out the full discussion here: anchor.fm/square-one-con…↗

made me lol. "Is Your Startup Idea Already Taken?" via @buzzfeed↗

@bentossell @earnestcapital A little bit hacky - but if you add an audio file to Dropbox and create the share link, you can replace the 'www.dropbox' with 'dl.dropboxusercontent' and then the audio file can be embedded and streamable. I use this for podcast hosting and it works g…↗

A thread with all of my podcasts expounding on the "How to Get Rich" tweetstorm. I’ll add new episodes here. Here’s the original tweetstorm for reference: x.com/naval/status/1…↗

Been investing for 5.5 years. I have returned almost no capital, but have lead 1 round from seed investor->unicorn, 1 more coming shortly, and another hopefully a bit later in year. So I have at least learned some things. Here are my learnings for New GPs/Managers, fwiw:↗

We would have a better understanding of many social networks if we regarded them as Status as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Not all network effects work the same way. Status is a powerful motivator but inherently volatile. eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19…↗

Thread: The best consumer marketplaces end up supply-constrained, because they tap into an incredible amount of demand. For instance, Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber have seemingly infinite demand since the product/market fit is so strong--and this demand puts pressure on supply.↗