Resilient Founders Always Have A Move
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Resilient Founders Always Have A Move
When he was CEO of Opsware, their toughest competitor Bladelogic started consistently beating them in large deals. His smartest people offered suggestions on how to avoid the battle. they regained their product lead after nine months of hard work on a rugged product cycle, building a company worth $1.6B in the end. "There are no silver bullets here... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
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Entrepreneurial Strategy There are four things an entrepreneur needs: a good idea, a good team, a good product, and a good business model. Interviewing customers, assessing the market, building a MVP, and iterating are all tactics. In the long run, how do we dominate a significant market? In the short term, entrepreneurs tend to focus on a large ma... See more
Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy
Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identity crisis looms for any high achiever flirting with failure, and a calculation begins on the conflicting forces of sunk costs and lost time on the one hand, and reputational harm on the other. As entr... See more
buzzwords of the moment call for building a “lean startup” that can “adapt” and “evolve” to an ever-changing environment. Would-be entrepreneurs are told that nothing can be known in advance: we’re supposed to listen to what customers say they want, make nothing more than a “minimum viable product,” and iterate our way to success. But leanness is a
... See morePeter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
When my partners and I meet with entrepreneurs, the two key characteristics that we look for are brilliance and courage. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions…
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
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Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
Many people pretend they do. Often they don’t because their ego and fear of failing get in the way. There is a close inverse correlation between ego and self-confidence. The latter is also an excellent indicator of resilience. Last week, a new study on the characteristics of unicorn founders found unlimited self-belief to be one of the three domina... See more
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