Shashaank Bhaskar | Substack
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Shashaank Bhaskar | Substack
A firm’s brand as a proxy for a person’s reputation was born out of laziness and lack of access to data. No doubt, top talent enjoys working together, but it’s no longer a necessity. You are seeing this in spades right now within venture capital, as individual investors are banding together to support entrepreneurs who would prefer a group of hand-... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comClearly, I needed to get into the pro scene to assemble the winning elements. Once I’d reached the aspirational locations, I’d find the top-tier athletes. Once I’d found the top-tier athletes, I’d have to connect with them somehow to capture one of them in action. That method of deconstructing what works into its component elements has been the key
... See moreChase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
The “being one’s own best innovator/customer” paradigm enjoys a fantastic business history. Henry Ford, George Eastman, and Edwin Land were all DIFY—do it for yourself—entrepreneurs.