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Brian Armstrong shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase After realizing he could make $60/hour tutoring as a college student, Brian and his roommate decided to build an online marketplace for tutors. They would match tutors with students and https://t.co/1zeJHelWlz

when i had a venture-backed startup it was so hard to balance the desires of customers, investors, and myself. now (with no investors) i just make stuff i enjoy, people similar to me help pay for it, i ask what else they want, i do 50% that + 50% stuff i want and it all works out

the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference between story and substance and armed with a billion dollars it may take a decade for it to fail. as an

About 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea. The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%. For example: > Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming pr... See more

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