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Mario
On the time YC cofounder @jesslivingston tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp:
At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it.
That week in summer 2015 our startup Paribus had grown 20% w/w, our biggest problem ... See more
“A little learning is a dangerous thing”
People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error.
This quote is from a poem by Alexander Pope.
In order to be credible, you must be authentic and true.
om.co • Brunello Cucinelli
To be credible, you must be consistent in the way you behave. Someone can say to you, “Listen, two years ago, you said something different.” In a split second, they know. That’s where lies that wonderful future for mankind.
... See moreTelling me your product is “email”, makes me assume it’s similar to other email solutions. I will expect your competitors to be GMail or Outlook and your pricing will be similar. I will expect it to have an inbox and a way to filter spam. On the other hand, if you tell me your product is “chat” I will make completely different assumptions and I wil
“Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.”
Collab Fund • Respect Each Others’ Delusions
“all alpha in vc is basically a derivative of having a variant view on TAM”
VC business model isn't to build a traditional profitable business that beats the competition by providing a superior product/service for a competitive price. It is to dominate the competition by subsidizing the real cost to consumers, until you have taken over the market and can raise the price and lower the quality of the product/service.
Unicorn founders did not go to business school, nor did they work at McKinsey. Instead, they were less career-oriented global citizens who typically worked in a startup before they became founders.
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or stud... See more
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or stud... See more
Feed | LinkedIn
Creating the supply of an otherwise scarce resource will make you very rich. If you control the supply of something scarce, you control the economics associated with the resource, and can create monopolies of many kinds.
Alex Crompton • 21st Century Alchemy | Entrepreneur First
Segment and Amplitude hired a customer success/support person as employee #1. Here’s Calvin French-Owen (co-founder of Segment) on why they did this:
“ There’s something really magical when you write in to a startup and they fix your issue within a few hours. It’s something you’d never, ever expect from a big company, and it was one way for us to di... See more