1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it would make the core ideas clearer in my mind and more concise. Think it worked. Here are the tweets↗

Looking to make a list of angel & pre-seed investors looking at the no-code space. Any recommendations?↗

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The reason most founders are surprised by the difficulty of fundraising is that they're learning something about themselves, not something about fundraising. They know fundraising is hard for startups that don't seem appealing to investors. They just didn't realize they had one.↗

THREAD: Making vs. Growing Money.↗

All platforms have their favorite partners: - The partners that bring them business - The partners that help them close deals - The partners that make their customers the most happy - The partners that fill the most critical feature gaps Do whatever it takes to be one ;)↗

I want to get to know small fund managers in SF. I meet lots of founders who are way too early or need too little financing for people I know at big funds. Instead of helping them get optionality checks, it would be nice to know small funds. Who should I connect with?↗

Investors, do you recommend a Services stack to your startups? cc @briannekimmel @tylerwillis @sharpshoot @semil @maiab @rrhoover Banking - @BankMercury Legal - multiple intros Hiring - @angellisttalent (I work at @AngelList) Payroll - @GustoHQ Cap table mgmt - @cartainc↗

This is a 60 slide deck with everything I know and feel about presenting well. beautiful.ai/player/-LiSV45…↗

Best site for web design inspiration these days?↗

Here are the main distilled points fom @naval's talk on @joerogan Since this legendary talk deserves a tweet storm on its own, and Naval is a busy man. 1/ Life is short, you have to generalize, see what life has to offer. Specialization is for ants. …↗

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:↗