Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What Sam looks for in founders: breadcrumbs from their past that hint at their trajectory, outsiders with a unique insight, unusually strong in one area, cognizant of their weaknesses, understand where they need to focus right now, have a way to inspire and bring people together
Sam Hinkie • Find Your People
Sam Altman: “The good founders are people who have ideas all the time”
“You can give a founder an idea and they can start a company. The problem is they need to come up with new ideas for the company basically every week. You have to come up with crazy new ideas and big changes all the... See more
Startup Archivex.com
In 2012, Paul Graham wrote an essay on startup ideas.
13 years later, it’s still the most accurate startup playbook I’ve ever read.
Most founders waste years chasing the wrong startup ideas.
Here’s how to never make that mistake... See more
My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:
1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.
2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily.
3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000... See more
Making a durable social app is a once-per-decade black swan event.
Builders in this space know that you cannot measure a founder’s talent by whether they created one of these outliers—but rather it’s the craftsmanship and decisions they demonstrated with each of their attempts.
For those who... See more
Nikita Bierx.comNot maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another.
Morgan Housel • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
While a tad oversimplified, Charlie Munger’s famous one-liner is sort of like the Occam’s Razor of human behavior – especially at scale. People are generally far more driven by self-interest than by any other factor.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
Max Levchin, my co-founder at PayPal, says that startups should make their early staff as personally similar as possible.