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Max Levchin, my co-founder at PayPal, says that startups should make their early staff as personally similar as possible.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: B2B Marketplaces
Jeff Bezos • Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
radical, qualitative improvement,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
customers to buy the product, partners to help distribute the product, and, eventually, other VCs to fund the business beyond the initial round of financing. Will the founder be able to explain her vision in a way that causes others to want to join her on this mission? And will she walk through walls when the going gets tough—which it inevitably wi
... See moreScott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
These companies stand for more than convenience and low cost; they seek to create products and services that customers truly love. In this new paradigm, scale and personalization happily coexist.
Randy Komisar • I F**KING LOVE THAT COMPANY: How a New Generation of Brand Builders Is Defining the Post-Amazon World
Once you understand that, you can think through whether you have a business that investors will want to invest in.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
“Entrepreneurs [Visionaries] hunt. They don’t manage. They explore rather than analyze. They build companies with vision, creativity, and tenacity; not with policies and procedures.”