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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Most wannabe founders are waiting for an angel to anoint them with a $50,000 check before they start working on anything outside of a PowerPoint deck, or worse, delusionally long emails explaining why everything else out there sucks and their derivative idea will win—if only you believe in them and cut them a check. If the most a person can create
... See moreJason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
Livingston: Did you use your own money for Groove? Ozzie: Yes, I funded the first few years myself. But eventually I took some money from Mitch Kapor and then others. Not so much because I needed it at that point, but because I knew that, ultimately, you cannot accomplish something completely on your own. You really need to develop a network of peo
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Sequoia Capital • Elements of Enduring Companies
Jeff Bezos • Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
The earliest stage of building a crypto application requires all the ingredients of a normal startup: a great team, lean development, tight execution, and quick learning. During this phase, the only thing that matters is product/market fit. To move fast toward finding it, it’s important to avoid design by committee (or community!) A product n
... See moreJesse Walden • Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications | Andreessen Horowitz
couldn't figure out what a receptionist would do. And executive assistants, we don't have those either. So on the subject of hiring, I don't look at a head count budget when I think of hiring people. I wait until I see the need for someone—when I can carve out a job description that's 80 percent full on the day someone starts—and that's when I'll o
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The next thing you look for is: What are the key zones of expertise, networks, ways of thinking that add the most value into the company that you couldn’t hire for? Because if you can hire it, great, hire it. Add it into the genetics of the company. But there are a bunch of people like, for example, me or Peter Chernin—you can’t hire us into the co
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
At the core of being a great founder is the unrelenting desire to see your vision—or version—of the world realized. When you meet with founders as often as an angel should, you’re going to very quickly be able to sense if their startup matters enough to them. What you need to figure out is if this founder will quit when things get hard.