Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Soren Larson
@soren
Holed up in a room with a whiteboard, the founders sketched out what an ideal insurer would look like—from a Millennial’s point of view. It would be online only (no paper or insurance brokers), low-cost, easy to deal with and “trustworthy.” They weren’t naïve about needing insurance expertise and, in May 2015, recruited Ty Sagalow, a 36-year indust... See more
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
“Place your biggest bet on a focused strategy and iterate until it works - Never hedge your bets as a company – if you have two paths, you have no paths You have limited resources, don’t lower your ceiling with two bets"
Aaron Levie • The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch: 20VC: Box's Aaron Levie on Why Founders Cannot Hedge Their Bets, The 2 Categories of Wrong Decision and How To Avoid Them & The Biggest Dangers of Being Over-Funded as a Startup
Emil Michael (ex CBO at Uber)
open.spotify.comEric Eldon
slideshare.net
1/ A common dilemma for SaaS founders is whether to focus on individual users or teams as the primary customer. This has important implications for pricing & packaging as well as product design.
TLDR: Team plans are where the money is & where founders should focus. Here's why:
Ben Braverman (Chief Customer/Revenue Officer at Flexport)
open.spotify.comShripriya Mahesh
@shripriyaramanan
Filmmaker. Investor. Believer that tech can make our world better
Joel Snyder
@snyderjoel