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But bodies don’t gauge their stress response in comparison to other body’s hardships. They’re not logical, at least not in that way. My intense stress may have been less than others’, in other words, but that didn’t diminish how my body was internalizing it.
In this instance, investors would probably like to see founders who are “native enough” to understand crypto and Web3 with a lot of depth and nuances, who have the right network to attract crypto engineers, but who also so native that they can’t understand the experience of the average mainstream, non-crypto user they might be talking to.
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1⃣ "Users love you."
This shines through via retention. What type of retention and what "great" looks like differs by biz model.
For social I look at bounded daily (ex. d30), while for subscription I look at m13 renewal. Data on this for marketplaces: https://t.co/rm8UalcVpe
Many startup employees get screwed by their companies.
The company isn’t funded as promised or they never get equity.
Here are 7 things I’d require from the company before signing an offer: