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Everything we do requires us to evaluate whether the potential outcome is worth the amount of time (ie. life) we need to sacrifice in order to achieve it. Building a startup is a big investment of your time. Here’s a long framework you can use to assess whether an opportunity - be that launching a startup or embarking on a new career - is worth the investment.
This writer recently read Elon Musk’s biography and noted down a number of invaluable lessons that founders can take from the book about how Musk functions. The notes cover Musk's views on leadership, product management, and embracing risk.
Technological progress is all about tomorrow being better than today - the promise of a bright future is a major reason we struggle so hard to innovate and push the envelope today.
AI co-pilots seem to be popping up everywhere. This article explores the process that software engineers follow to build these products, documenting pain points and opportunities.
Attempting to raise capital from an investor who has a position in a competitor of yours is always a bad idea. If they hold a board seat with your competitor, they’ll almost certainly share any information you give them with your competitor.
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Self-driving cars, AI doctors, and lawyers - all of them might save human lives because they’re safer and more accurate than humans. Which in principle, is excellent. However, they’re not going to be perfect - deaths will still happen. Responsibility for deaths then shifts from flawed humans to computers. When a flawed human makes a mistake, it’s imperfect but we get it. But when a computer makes a mistake, who do we blame?
We’ve seen the boom and bust of many social enterprises over the years - Google+ and Houseparty are two great examples. Many of them are predicated on network effects and virality. How durable is that business model? This article explores that question.
More startups are popping up that focus on getting people disconnected from the online world, rather than connected to it. From silent retreats to hardware designed to lock your phone away. This article unpacks some of the startups leading this movement.
Your team is the most important resource you have, so you should absolutely get their input on decisions whenever you can. However, the buck stops with you, the founder. You need to have faith and make the hard calls.
Sometimes founders and investors aren’t aligned. Investors want to see a path toward an outcome that works for their funds and returns models. Understanding their desired outcomes enables you to better work together.
“Impatience with actions, patience with results”. Great ideas sometimes take time to mature, give them space.