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Tech Coast Angels (an early-stage angel investment group with more than three hundred members)
Judy Robinett • Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
If you’re building a consumer social app, this is realistically what valuations you should expect from investors:
• No Product (w/ 1-2 engineers): $6 million
• Prototype: $12 million
• Post-Launch (No traction): $8 million
• Post-Launch (Topping the charts): $80-150 million
Nikita Bierx.comIf there was a scale of financial sophistication between 1 and 10, and a really smart person in New York is an 8.5, then the average Silicon Valley person is a 2 in financial literacy
Tim Ferriss • Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More (#651) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
This is exactly how the first VPE at Opendoor went wrong and bombed out in 1.5 years.
Came from Amazon and just grouped everyone by years of experience and assumed everyone was interchangeable.
Maybe it works with 4000 engineers at Amazon. Doesn't work with 40 at a startup.
Connor Jacobsenx.com
This commit most likely just saved us $800-$1000 a month
Vercel wtf, why is your optimization 100x more expensive then CloudFlare lol
Its easy to not see this when following docs https://t.co/Gi1dn2E3Sa
These limitations reduce economic growth and amplify inequality. As more economic activity moves online, we need internet-native tools for building productive economies. Many people don’t have a bank account but do have a mobile phone with internet access.
future.a16z.com • Designing Internet-Native Economies: A Guide to Crypto Tokens - Future
These developers aren’t building communities; they’re directing air traffic.