The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.


2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short t

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• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen

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you should keep a spreadsheet of ideas that can move your primary KPI and not to be too repetitive, but these tasks are almost always a variant of two things, right? One, talking to users and two, building product. Talking to users helps you with three things: it converts them into customers and revenue or helps you convert them into customers and ... See more