When I entered VC, I thought founders would want my help with: - algorithms - sw architecture - advice on leveraging data 😂 Here's what they usually want: - recruiting help - best practices/"what've you seen in this situation?" - someone who believes in them - emotional support
All of these brilliant people (@nntaleb @naval @nickkokonas) talk about the importance of doing things or investing in things with “asymmetric risk” (huge upside, limited downside). But I’ve never seen a list of what those things might be. Let’s create one. I’ll start...
I’ve gotten asked a lot about YC interviews in the last week. Here are some tips:
The cheat codes for raising angel funding...
📖 Got about 15 chapters done for Refactoring UI so far, things are coming along awesome! Will be sending out another free preview this week to anyone subscribed for updates: https://t.co/KWmLPhiuhf https://t.co/CrFVvCRwz6
Lambda School but for __________ instead of programming
1/ What drives decisions for (bad) VCs. This is going to be fun.
@eriktorenberg @jrdngonen @dksf @CaseyNeistat @368 YC took off in part because of the lack of education and a playbook for starting a company and raising money. I’m not sure YC would be a fraction of what it is today if it started in 2018. So, which industries today have a simi…
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