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The best practical knowledge of doing startups shared by entrepreneurs and investors. Please DM us if you have great tips and articles to share! #startup Joined July 2018

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Alex Lieberman @businessbarista

4 years ago

Today, Morning Brew is a 110-person, 8-figure media brand. But back in 2015, it was a shitty PDF with a couple hundred readers. That's why taking the leap into entrepreneurship was so difficult. Here’s how I made the big move 🧵

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Jen @BackseatVC

4 years ago

Do I know any founders who are raising their first round (angel or pre-seed) and are interested in an untraditional fundraising process? DM me and tag them!!

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Hiten Shah @hnshah

4 years ago

A thread of threads on startups.

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StartupGist @startupgistapp

5 years ago

Great opportunity to learn how to pitch better! wecollabx.com/pitch

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Yuri Sagalov @yuris

6 years ago

Companies founded in 2008/2009: 🏡Airbnb ⛅️Cloudflare 🐙Github ☁ Nutanix 📟PagerDuty 📌Pinterest 💌Sendgrid ＃ Slack ⏹Square 💳Stripe ☎️Twilio 🚖Uber 💬WhatsApp 📣Yammer

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

Caveat: 10X better go to market can frequently beat 10X product

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

You have to see something other people haven’t seen in order to do something that hasn’t been done before. If you don't have a problem to solve now, go get more life experience in unique things you are interested in. Go follow or work on products you are fascinated by and love.

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

When choosing a startup idea, you must be able to check either of these boxes [ ] Truly novel (nobody else has tried) [ ] 10X better product The absolute best check both. 99% of startups check neither. A good pitch is sometimes a strong story explaining how to get the 1st ☑️

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

Analysis of the careers of geniuses show that their output tends to be highly uneven: good ideas mixed in with many false starts. The secret to creative greatness appears to be doing things differently—even when that means failing 🎨🤞🔮 blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-mind…

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Ben Sun @bksun

6 years ago

First time founders think 90% product and 10% distribution. Second time founders think 50% product and 50% distribution. Need obsess about how you reach customers as much as how you will delight them.

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Steve Schlafman 🐌 @schlaf

6 years ago

"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage." ~Arie De Geus

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Steve Schlafman 🐌 @schlaf

6 years ago

I recently incorporated a 'daily reflection' into my routine. Each night, I answer these questions in @NotionHQ: - What new thing did I do today? - What worked well? What didn't? - What did I learn? - What one thing will I do differently tomorrow? - What am I grateful for?

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David Spinks @DavidSpinks

6 years ago

You can't build community for people who don't need community. Being your customer does not mean they need community. You have to find the "isolated identity" - the part of people's life where they are craving connection and support.

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

@jmj @john_c_palmer @mwseibel @harris @daltonc YC partners have more reps at working with founders than anyone else. The most common things they help with are the simplest but most important: are you solving a real problem? Are you growing? If so, how do you grow faster? If not, why not?

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Nikita Bier @nikitabier

6 years ago

@heif For me, app development is about unblocking latent demand & nascent behaviors—not getting people to do things they don’t want to do.

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Jacqueline Novogratz @jnovogratz

6 years ago

What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable? If that were our metric, our world would be a different place.

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Garry Tan @garrytan

6 years ago

Capital is a commodity—there’s an oversupply of money seeking yield It’s an incredible time to be a founder or VC—capital is plentiful and the marketplace for talented people starting companies is unlimited (as long as you look outside central casting) Growth mindset 📈