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Rob Walling Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books…
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Zach Holman Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
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Naval Ravikant …at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long…
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Tomasz Tunguz …at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and…
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Fred Wilson …every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and…
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Brad Feld …written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture…
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Pieter Levels Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has…
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startups need an asymmetry
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Founders' reputation for overconfidence is sample bias; most good startups actually underrate themselves.
Startup founders have a reputation for overconfidence, but this is just sample bias; the arrogant ones are also the loudest. Even now most good startups underrate themselves, so it really helps to encourage them.
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Almost all standard startup advice is still true in the AI era.
…all of it. There's more difference between the advice I give different startups in one batch than between what I've given pre-AI and post-AI…
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The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
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The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI
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yc-blacklist — Open, community-maintained registry of YC startups to avoid — don't work for, don't use, don't pay for. JSON database, contribute via PR.
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…raising, just know that a lot of this is a numbers game. Even the hot startups I talk to get a lot of `no` before hearing…
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…technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multiples After AI: - hardware is the only thing AI can't build - solo founders are 100x engineers - anyone can build -…
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Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a…
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About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.
You think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder
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The Cognitive Sport of Building Startups
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The difficulty of incorporating a company in Germany is understated rather than exaggerated, and it pushes founders to incorporate elsewhere.
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a…
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Burn Bright, Not Out
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Popups are the new startups
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Design Futures Assembly
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A fantastic way to spend two years early in your career learning about tech, startups, and a lot more
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…to our conversation. We talked about the past, present, and future of startups, VC, and…
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Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.
…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…
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Idea Generation
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Funding for COVID-19 Projects
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…year, for the last eighteen months. I've been sharing my thoughts on tech, startups, VC, music, life, etc onchain at Farcaster. If you still want to hear from me on that stuff, come follow me…
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Yes, Blockchain Can Help Us Solve Climate Change – Why I Joined Nori