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If I was a first-time startup founder, I would not aim to build a $1B unicorn. VCs will hate this, but here's why you should think SMALLER and try to create a $3m-5m ARR profitable SaaS instead:
Adam Robinsonx.com
Why did Adam Neumann get to cash in $700M? In venture capital there's been a shift of power from investors to operators.
Thank @BillGates and Steve Jobs for that. #WeWork #VentureCapital
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Peter Thiel explains how he became the first investor in Facebook
“The first day [Mark Zuckerberg and I] met,” Thiel begins, “We told him to leave for an hour. Then he came back and we gave him a term sheet about an hour later. It was a fast decision.”
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Startup Archivex.com
PayPal時代のピーター・ティールも近しい行動原理してる。
ドットコム・バブルが崩壊し、資金調達が難しくなると考えたティールが、直近ラウンドで調達した1億ドルで上場株を空売りし資金確保しようとしたこと。
結果、取締役陣に反対され実行されなかったが、投資してれば莫大なリターンが出ていた https://t.co/FT73qTsdGH
We have people that build experiences on our platform. We have people who build tools for other creators that work on our platform. We have people who build assets. It’s a very complex creator ecosystem that we’ve spent the last 15 years building.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Our head of developer relations, before he became our head of developer relations, he worked at Zynga and ran a development studio. He said, “I’m going to build a game on Roblox and I’m going to crush it, because I know everything about building games.” He showed us his plans, and we said, “Well, you need to have some other things. You need to have... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
The Entrepreneur is easy to recognize when encountered. This is the person who is afflicted by a monomaniacal fever, who cannot not be an entrepreneur. There are others, though, who do not fit the template, such as Louis Borders, who had left the game, or thought he had, until he was hit with a singular inspiration and could not not test the Big
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