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I started in Venture in 1991 - so it's been a solid 33 years fort me. I've always relished the 'craftsman' layer of the business - 1st check to a solo or pair of entrepreneurs and empowering at the start. For me it's alwsy been about the wonderful feeling of BUILDING, project by project. My observation is that 'platforms' have advantages in the... See more
Bill Taix.comGo Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing
joincolossus.com
Airbnb創業者による提起、FounderモードとManagerモードというスタイルの差。全スタートアップ関係者必読すぎたので保存
Written by @paulg / Translate by GPT https://t.co/0Cwi3kNTqC
Ben Horowitz on the ideal founding team for a startup
Ben looks for two people on a founding team:
1. The inventor. “It’s the inventor’s job to build a product that’s 10x better than anything that’s available to solve that problem.”
2. The entrepreneur. “The entr... See more
Startup Archivex.com「前回ラウンドから進捗があったので〇〇円の時価総額で調達します」ではなく、将来を見た時にいかにディスカウントなのかを話したほうが投資家は入りやすいとPeter Thielが語る。
PayPalも$45Mから3ヶ月後に$500Mの時価総額で調達できたのは、IPO前のラウンドで上場時は株価が上がると説明した。 https://t.co/UZL497QfLe
Tetsuro Miyatakex.comthe entrepreneur has to be receptive of the value that the VC really brings to the table—the knowledge and network and the been-there-done-that scenarios.
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah • Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
early-stage start-ups that serve customers at $10K and $100K are running two radically different GTMs
it's a red flag, suggesting (1) you might not know exactly who your customer is or (2) the direct implications of trying to unlock two very different GTM motions
what might not be obvious i... See more
Jen Abelx.comAngel Investor Elad Gil on the 3 types of founders that become extremely successful
"The first one is the polymathic, hyper-intellectual yet very competitive type of person. That's probably Patrick and John from Stripe. That was Larry and Sergey when I worked at Google.
The second one is the... See more
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