dsebastien.medium.com
20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost. A story about resilience and the sunk cost fallacy
20+ min · · TLDR; It can be really hard to know if we’re just resilient and/or falling for the sunk cost fallacy. · Shared by 4, including 瑞拿頭
Paul Graham
Why There Aren't More Googles
5 min · · Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. April 2008Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world.… · Shared by 4, including 瑞拿頭
synthesis.substack.com
Fair Launches Will Disrupt Crypto VC
6 min · · How $YFI, $YAM and "fair launch capital" point towards a future where pure-play crypto VCs become less relevant · Shared by 13, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, 瑞拿頭
defmacro.org
How to build great products
9 min · · If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an… · Shared by 9, including rohit, 瑞拿頭
carolchen.me
I Don't Want to be a Founder and I Don't Think You Do Either
9 min · · Carol Chen's blog about stuff she does or reads about or observes · Shared by 10, including 瑞拿頭, hiten.eth, Noel Jacob
Scott Young
Do the Real Thing
5 min · · Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead. · Shared by 269, including Arturo Rebolledo, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, Nir Eyal, Ramit Sethi, 瑞拿頭, Nick Wignall, Thomas Kaul, Anand Sanwal, Katja Evertz, DP, Matthias 🔥 I help you waste less time
maggieappleton.com
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes
2 min · · Maggie Appleton is an art director, anthropologist, and metaphor-making illustrator. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about technology, culture, and programming · Shared by 150, including Gio Tiongson, David Garner, 瑞拿頭, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
financetrainingcourse.com
Seven finance lessons for founders
17+ min · · Seven finance lessons for founders and startups. A short review of opportunity cost, sunk costs, modeling, relative value, optionality and fixed costs. · Shared by 2, including 瑞拿頭
Inc.
How Focus on a Single Passion Helped Steve Aoki Become a Global Phenomenon
2 min · · The DJ and record label founder changed jobs, but not focus, on his way to worldwide success. · Shared by 9, including Real Marsha Wright®, 瑞拿頭
startplatz.de
Business Model Canvas für Startups und Corporates
4 min · · Das Business Model Canvas ist ein Tool, das dich bei der Gestaltung Deiner Geschäftsidee unterstützt! Hole Dir hier dein kostenloses Whitepaper! · Shared by 3, including 瑞拿頭
Handelszeitung
Home Office: Schweizer VC-Fund Tomahawk investiert in virtuelle Startups
1 min · · Tomahawk investiert in Startups, deren Mitarbeiter remote arbeiten. Die Männer hinter dem neuen Schweizer VC-Fund sind in der Szene keine Unbekannten. · Shared by 3, including 瑞拿頭
Y Combinator
YC’s Series A Guide
1 min · · We started YC’s Series A Program two years ago to fix a problem faced by every startup raising an A: VCs understand how Series A's work and founders do not. This asymmetry of information puts founders… · Shared by 133, including Leo Polovets, justin, Mark Kaigwa, AdrianLocher, Rob Go, Jonathan Kogan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Julien✌🏻️, 瑞拿頭, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Jacob du Toit, Pawel Chudzinski 🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Rob Moffat
steve blank
Steve Blank The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
Summary · 7 min · · “Winter is coming.” This is the one blog post that I hope I’m completely wrong about. With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be a… · Shared by 213, including Alex Barrera, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Antonio Ramos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tom Connor, 瑞拿頭, Christian P. Stobbe, Bob Apollo Inflexion-Point FF.ISP 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇪🇸, Thomas Power, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa
Marker by Medium
Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding
17+ min · · How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry’s, and Casper · Shared by 196, including Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Mo Koyfman, Mike Troiano, Mark Kaigwa, John Koetsier, Nilofer Merchant, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, sircharlsxavier, Pascal Sulser, 瑞拿頭, Barney Loehnis, Matthias Lampe, Adam Singer, Kainaz Amaria
Marker by Medium
Is It the End of the IPO as We Know It?
18+ min · · Founders, companies, and investors are rebelling against the investment banks — and taking matters into their own hands · Shared by 22, including 瑞拿頭, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Gideonro
businessfinancing.co.uk
The Oldest Company in Almost Every Country (That is Still in Business)
5 min · · To survive in the big bad world of business, you need staying power. We wanted to know which businesses around the world have stood the test of time and were th · Shared by 36, including Avinash Kaushik, Kat, Esther Schindler, 瑞拿頭, Draven, Jeff Atwood