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...
Lambda School but for __________ instead of programming
@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…
@ItsHogg @levelsio @ProductHunt @sarah__jackson @jsfiddle Here is a slightly tweaked version of @levelsio that actually generates a downloadable gif 🎉 insert your emojis and then right click on the image 'save image as' 👍 https://jsfiddle. net/moritzkobrna/oxwjdc2m/
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