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Josh Garcia • 4 cards
A silent boom
Nobody knows what's going on.
Finally, it's way too long. It feels like a research doc, and it spooks me a bit for it to be so long and to be so reluctant to talk about the thing you're building, especially the first thing you're building. Like, market research is relatively easy; ChatGPT can write a million compelling-sounding
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Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Like most of us working in the startup world and venture capital, I see technology as an opportunity to create more wealth and make things better. But I also realize that everything I’ve concentrated on during the past two decades has put me on the winning side of technological change.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
It takes time to learn to recognize the traits that distinguish a winning entrepreneur from a likely loser. That is another reason why finding ways to generate a flow of potential deals is so important: the more experience you have in meeting, talking with, and evaluating company founders, the better you will become at spotting potential champions.
David S. Rose • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups
As billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel put it: [You] probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t know what works, and haven’t thought about it, they try some sales, BD, advertising, and viral
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