If I ever do moonshot investing it will be 10 years from now backing current @earnestcapital founders after a number of them had their first life-changing exit.↗

Great rundown of how successful startups acquired their first 1000 users: lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-bigg… But every business, no matter how analog, should ask themselves these questions:↗

Actionable advice to startups from Sequoia in 2008: embrace ruthless pragmatism, pivot your biz model fast, experiment and iterate your product at hyper speed b/c your livelihood depends on it.↗

Deep Dive into education: - Current problems in k-12 & higher ed - Future of k-12 & higher ed - 3 waves of ed-tech - Opportunities for startups in the space, including homeschool, credentialing, unbundling & rebundling the university, and more Thread👇↗

There are countless startup book lists on the internet 🌐 I wanted to know what were the most recommended startup books ever 🏆 So I've compiled more than 4000 recommendations from 208 lists and came up with with this top 25 most recommended startup books of all-time📕 THREAD↗

I often get introduced to people looking to make the jump into startups and Silicon Valley. This is the reading list I send them. It’s meant to be a primer for many of the popular concepts and jargon you will hear working at a startup. danromero.org/canon.html↗

1/ One of the biggest misconceptions I see from first-time founders is what multiples they could sell their company for. So, let's talk about that a bit, in an effort to downplay the notion that you'll get filthy rich from your company.↗

Marketing lessons learned over more than a decade growing startups (thread): Great marketing emanates from a great product. If the product sucks no amount of world class marketing can redeem it. Marketing can help make a good product great––it will never make a bad product good.↗

The first thing founders should do when they think they're ready to fundraise is lock down the narrative of their startup.↗

Don Valentine, the greatest of all time. I spent the morning watching his GSB talk. Rest in peace: 1. If you don't attack a big market, it's highly unlikely you're ever going to build a big company. (thread) youtu.be/nKN-abRJMEw?t=…↗

Almost everything I've learned about startups: * Aim to get to cash flow positive early * Don't overly optimize for private market valuations * Build a great team and culture * Make sure the business model *works* * Focus, focus, focus. Dilution of effort will crush you↗

Few startups I have found that help make having teammates everywhere simpler : Donut, Humble Dot, Deel, Carrom, Codi, Focusmate, Tandem, Keeper, Mural, Preface↗

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↗

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.↗

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↗

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.↗

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.↗

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.↗

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:↗

Profit sharing is the new IPO.↗

Two concepts worth knowing if you work on startups or develop products in general ⚙️ - Job to be done - Owning a moment (Please RT if useful - unsure what kind of content is helpful to others 🙏 - i usually tell this everyone who asks me for product advice)↗