made me lol. "Is Your Startup Idea Already Taken?" via @buzzfeed https://t.co/4lzM8JYR94
The Dumb Idea Paradox. Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. Thread 👇
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.
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. https://t.co/rabcoh9vKq
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
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.
There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.
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.
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 👇 https://t.co/ah77Vt5vqD
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 https://t.co/3lgp9t2…
11 angel investing lessons https://t.co/vFOYPeVePh
Getting married in a week... any advice team?
Morals of the @zoom_us entrepreneurial fable:
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.
@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.
1/ LinkedIn is the New Craigslist: the same unbundling that happened to Craigslist is now about to happen to LinkedIn. Read more here: https://t.co/on2GydxK8v
Who is writing, thinking, talking about low code/no code? 💻
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.
One of the trends I'm most excited about is the democratization of b2b technology. Let's discuss. 1/
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: https://t.co/xcJJ3XE9XU
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