Business | Start Up
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Collection by Memen Isimo
Toronto Life
I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. Dumbest thing I've ever done
20+ min · · I was a foodie who figured he could run a restaurant. I couldn’t have been more wrong—and it cost me my house, my sanity and nearly my wife · Shared by 36, including Thomas Power, Carl Morris, Helmut Adam, Memen Isimo, Michael Musgrove, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), @mainec@fromm.social, Howard Getson
Margins
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
8 min · · There is such a thing as a free lunch · Shared by 510, including Joshua Benton, Annie Lowrey, DHH, Laura Klein, Neeraj K Agrawal, Jerry Saltz, Jason Zweig, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Roemmele, John Koetsier, BrendanEich, Christopher Mims 🤌, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mathew Ingram, Ron Shevlin, Stuart A. Thompson, Mike Davidson, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Kevin Roose, Peter Steinberger
Vox
Why the future of the office has been put on hold
10 min · · For those who have gone back to the office, not much has really changed. · Shared by 96, including Gabriele, Memen Isimo, Phillip Murphy, LARRY ELKAN
MIT Technology Review
Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape.
10 min · · Every so often, I ask my daughter about the future. When she was three, she had only a basic concept of time, with little awareness of clocks or calendars. She could understand The Very Hungry… · Shared by 274, including Memen Isimo, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matthias Lampe, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Brian Ahier, Sergio Caredda, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matteo Furia, John Nosta
MarketWatch
Be prepared: A return to normal is a still a long way away, warns banking billionaire Jamie Dimon
2 min · · For those of you expecting the world to return to some sense of normalcy by the time 2021 rolls around, the JPMorgan Chase boss has a message: · Shared by 30, including Howard Getson, Memen Isimo
Harvard Business Review
Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case
16+ min · · It’s time for a new way of thinking. · Shared by 59, including Memen Isimo, Sergio Caredda, Stephanie A Kowalski, Gabriele
Financial Times
Airbnb brings in Jony Ive to oversee redesign
2 min · · Home rental site enters into ‘special collaboration’ with former Apple design chief’s company · Shared by 12, including Memen Isimo
Entrepreneur
4 Outdated Rules Every Business Owner Needs to Ditch
4 min · · Whether you like it or not, things have changed. The traditional "rules" of work simply don't apply to a majority of jobs anymore. · Shared by 69, including Real Marsha Wright®, Memen Isimo, Marsha Collier, Julie Ewald
Insider Business
The 31 most influential books ever written about business
10 min · · We researched and cross-referenced lists of the best business books according to influential business people and major media outlets. · Shared by 590, including Antonio Ramos, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Jennifer Hurst, Jonathan Kogan, Marius Bleuer, Sergio Caredda, abhishek yadav, Tom Connor, Jacob du Toit, Matteo Furia, Stefan Diepolder, Mark Davy, Memen Isimo, Mark Kaigwa
TechCrunch
After the end of the startup era
7 min · · There’s a weird feeling afoot these days, in the Valley, and in San Francisco. Across the rest of the world — Denver, Santiago, Toronto, Berlin, “Silicon Glen,” “Silicon Alley,” “Silicon Roundabout“,… · Shared by 553, including Dominik Grolimund, Fabricio Teixeira, Ilia Markov, Philip Stehlik, Björn Ognibeni, krisdahn.eth, FactorDaily, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe, Weiting Chen, Martin Rajcan, Sara Usinger, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Michelle Tandler, Parin Vachhani, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Massimiliano Aroffo, k, Startupxplore, Richard Gutjahr
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020
6 min · · Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while… · Shared by 623, including Ryan Selkis 🪳, hiten.eth, Gerd Leonhard, Mathew Ingram, OM, Roger Ehrenberg, Josh Elman, Barry Schwartz, Rob Go, M.G. Siegler, Azeem Azhar, Chris DiBona, Balaji, Dan Primack, Klaus Eck, Martin Varsavsky, Benedict Evans, Steve Silberman, Ryan Hoover, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️
TNW
18 best places to promote your startup for virtually nothing
8 min · · When you have launched a startup or prototype, one of the most important strategies to prove is your business concept and gaining early user traction. If you’re like most startup founders, you don’t have much money, nor do you have enough money to hire a PR agency. However, to become a great entrepreneur means you […] · Shared by 614, including L. Taylor Banks, Shawn Venasse, Raul Tiru 🌎, Dominik Grolimund, designshard, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Elia Palme, Sara Usinger, Daniel Stefanovic, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, krisdahn.eth, Antonio Vieira Santos, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Sala, Harsha Mv, Mathias Böhm, Brent Summers, Parin Vachhani, Lord Travis Wright
Paul Graham
The Lesson to Unlearn
15+ min · · December 2019 The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.When I was in college, a particularly earnest… · Shared by 784, including Joscha Bach, Nir Eyal, Anita Leirfall, Logical Analysis, Sergio Caredda, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Vinny Lingham, Elad Gil, Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Jimmy Song (송재준), Bilal Zuberi, Josh Kopelman, Ryan Hoover, Mike Maples, Jr, Brian Armstrong 🛡️, AJ Kohn, Ryan Selkis 🪳, Hugo Amsellem
Lenny Rachitsky
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
16+ min · · Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent… · Shared by 799, including Brian Halligan, Florian Graillot, Thomas Power, Brent Beshore, Jonathan Kogan, Ben Tossell, Ryan Hoover, Niti Shree, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ha Duong, Bri Kimmel, Bryce Roberts, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Version One Ventures, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Johannes Lenz, Amy Jo Kim, Chris Isak, scott belsky
a16z.com
16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
10 min · · We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the… · Shared by 1075, including Jeff Jordan, Thomasbcn, Moritz Meenen, Ryan Boren, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Gabriel Weinberg, Vinny Lingham, AdrianLocher, Startupxplore, Bernardo Mannelli, Thomas Power, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, Bram Kanstein, John Cutler, Herbert Bay, Tim Herbig, Peter Hogenkamp, Courtney Bolton ★, Lord Travis Wright
Sam Altman
Startup Playbook
Summary · 20+ min · · Written by Sam Altman · Illustrated by Gregory Koberger · Spanish translationWe spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us… · Shared by 1888, including Sergio Caredda, Lord Travis Wright, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay, Mark Bao, Moritz Meenen, Zee, Raul Tiru 🌎, Courtney Bolton ★, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Philip Junker, designshard, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, L. Taylor Banks, AdrianLocher, John Battelle, David Smooke, Jeff Chang, Nir Eyal