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Naval Ravikant’s advice to startup founders: “Stay small until you’ve figured out what’s working”
“Stay small until you’ve figured out what’s working. Steve Blank, who teaches at Stanford and started Epiphany among many other companies, defines a startup very nicely. He says a startup is a search for a scalable and repeatable business model. And s... See more
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Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
But many of them did fly to Austin just as the conference was ending, to attend another conference, SXSW, the storied public gathering where Silicon Valley mingled with celebrities. On the first day of SXSW, in a marquee session with Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Google’s “director of ideas,” Jared Cohen, responded to a question about Bitcoin with
... See moreNathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Dropbox had initially been built on Amazon’s cloud platform, and the product was growing so fast that the hosting bills had become very expensive.
