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korrents.com
Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.Their words
I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world
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17 November 2025
22 October 2025
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korrents.com
A company's quality is bounded by its team's quality, and a team's quality is bounded by its founders.Their words
We believe that a company is only as good as its team, and a team is only as good as its founders.
12 October 2025
30 September 2025
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korrents.com
Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.Their words
I think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.
18 August 2025
2 August 2025
23 June 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your StartupTheir words
was delightful!
22 April 2025
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global InvestorsTheir words
both of which I recommend
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Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New EconomyTheir words
I have written forewords for Amir in the past on two of his prior books, Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy and Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors, both of which I recommend.
23 March 2025
From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
And it struck me how the most well-known brands have stood for one clear thing. Like they have a clear position. And so in order for superhuman to be memorable, I believed that we needed to occupy a clear position that was unique and which was available and which reinforced our product strategy.
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Their words
I knew that our competition was not going to be startups. It was incumbents. And I also knew that incumbents generally struggle with speed because by definition they have massive scale and usually entrenched architecture.
6 March 2025
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Their words
Making ultra cheap products requires different rules and strategy.
3 February 2025
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
19 January 2025
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korrents.com
A startup does not need a growth team to start growing, because the first wave of growth has to be founder-led.Their words
I really believe that the founder led growth is not being popularized enough that you do not need growth teams until you actually can start running experiments on your user base
6 November 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Designing for PeopleTheir words
Memoirs of one of the founders of industrial design.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Dijkstra archiveTheir words
Collected writings of one of the founders of computer science.
14 October 2024
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Their words, before
My suggested approach would be more capital intensive while retaining a lot of risk until fairly late in development. I am not sure it’s fundable.
Their words now
Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.
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Their words
Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.
10 October 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Invention of the Jewish PeopleTheir words
Fascinating subject. Countries are made of stories. Kings didn’t need their subjects to agree, but nations do. So to build a nation, they need to make a story that helps people feel a shared identity, nationalism, and what distinguishes them from their neighbors. Back-creating a history. Founders of Israel did this brilliantly.
7 October 2024
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The Social NetworkTheir words
The Social Network is substantially made up, more a source for vibes rather than a source for facts. Even the vibes fail to cohere with reality. And yet it convinced many proto-founders to put in YC applications.
1 September 2024
From one piece Founder Mode 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
In effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode.
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Their words
I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it. Founders who are unable to delegate even things they should will use founder mode as the excuse. Or managers who aren't founders will decide they should try to act like founders.
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There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
19 August 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Something VenturedTheir words
Something Ventured -- a lighthearted history of the venture capital industry.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980sTheir words
Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s -- a brief history of the venture capital industry since 1973.
19 June 2024
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Their words
You can set out to build a good business and it’s still fine. Maybe the long-term business model of Perplexity can make us profitable in a good company, but never as profitable in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still okay.
21 May 2024
26 March 2024
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Employees don't want what you want. Customers don't want what you want. Uh you know, that that one of the challenges of the whole stock option thing is entrepreneurs and founders think that other people will be as motivated by owning part of the company as they are. They are not. Not even close.
18 March 2024
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I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later. I’d heavily discourage them from doing that. I don’t think we’ll set a precedent here.
20 February 2024
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Their words
And oftentimes it's more important to them to have the public perception that they're good directors so they get the next best deal. If they have a reputation for taking on management too aggressively, word will get out in the small community of founders and they'll miss the next Google.
12 February 2024
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Their words
In light of the applied nature of current research problems, there is another path that exposes you to cutting-edge AI work: joining a startup.
14 December 2023
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Their words
The only interesting problem is dramatically reducing the cost of access to orbit, which is, if you can do that, you open up a bunch of new endeavors that lots of start-up companies everybody else can do. One of our missions is to be part of this industry and lower the cost to orbit, so that there can be a renaissance, a golden age of people doing all kinds of interesting things in space.
28 November 2022
4 April 2022
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Their words
When you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.
Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com
25 January 2022
From one piece Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
A successful startup has about five years until they become a new incumbent. Um and and they actually start to behave like an incumbent. That's rational. Like of course that's rational. Like they've now built something worth defending.
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Their words
the reality is the kids that make new things work from scratch. It actually turns out that they actually have been deep in the domain for a long time. Almost every case, they've been thinking hard about the problem that they're trying to solve actually for in in a lot of cases for many years.
5 November 2021
5 August 2021
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
How to Build an Iconic CompanyTheir words
These are three-minute podcasts that talk about startups, leadership, management, and strategy.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Everything StoreTheir words
The Amazon startup story.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Elon MuskTheir words
This has three startup stories in one book
+ 2 more
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Zero to OneTheir words
This is an extremely well-written book focused on startup product strategy.
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How I Built ThisTheir words
Like my startup books, each of these podcasts gives insight into product and strategy.
9 June 2021
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Likedrcmnd.app
Startup CXOTheir words
It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.
23 February 2021
20 November 2020
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Their words
The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.
28 October 2020
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 MillionTheir words
Selling is hard. Building a repeatable model with a team that you attempt to rapidly scale is even harder. Fortunately, Mark Roberge, who was one of the very first employees at HubSpot shares the processes and frameworks he used to build a sales machine. If you like the principles behind Lean Startups, then his data- and experiment-driven approach to sales will be very appealing.
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Lean EntrepreneurTheir words
It goes much further and deeper into how to approach actually doing Lean in your business than Eric Ries's The Lean Startup book. It also has some awesome case studies showing how lean can apply to any industry. See my full review here.
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Recommendsaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Startup Owner's ManualTheir words
This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
What Customers WantTheir words
This book was written before the Lean Startup movement, but espouses many of the same concepts. If you feel like you're starting at zero in understanding what to do to become customer driven, this is a good place to start.
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Dislikedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Lean StartupTheir words
If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)
27 July 2020
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Startup CommunitiesTheir words
has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Startup Community WayTheir words
The timing of this book is excellent.
19 June 2020
28 May 2020
15 March 2020
10 September 2018
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