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sari and • 109 cards

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

As we applied it to venture capital, we decided to build the following networks: Large companies Every new company needs to either sell something to or partner with a larger company.

Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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Packy McCormick • 6 cards

Solopreneurship

Brandon Marcus • 30 cards

A good question for a software company is: what’s your billion-dollar function?

Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

The need to do something unscalably laborious to get started is so nearly universal that it might be a good idea to stop thinking of startup ideas as scalars. Instead we should try thinking of them as pairs of what you're going to build, plus the unscalable thing(s) you're going to do initially to get the company going.