Crazy New Ideas - Paul Graham essay
May 2021 "There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable pers...
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Unique ideas, conformity, contrarian thinking, kooky startups
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The Two Kinds of Moderate - Paul Graham essay
December 2019 There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberate...
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Nietzsche - Follow No One, Trust Yourself
Nietzsche - Follow No One, Trust Yourself
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism - Paul Graham essay
The Four Quadrants of Conformism - Paul Graham essay July 2020 One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggress...
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Being Normal - Econlib
I’ve always been weird, but at this point in my life I feel like I understand non-weird people quite well. If you’re still baffled, my weird frien...
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The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin | First Round Review
Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templat...
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Customer Pitch vs Investor Pitch - Michael Seibel - Y Combinator
Michael Seibel on pitching customers vs pitching investors. Michael is CEO and a Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Soci...
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Video Of The Week: Coinbase’s Vision – AVC
Fortune recently did a big profile on Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase and in concert with that, they made this v...
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Embracing Bad Ideas To Get To Good Ideas || Harvard Business Review
Working through them can result in a gem.
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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible - Harvard Business Review
It’s called reverse thinking.
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Cap table management tool Carta valued at $800M with new funding – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
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Why this CEO makes everything she does transparent to all employees - Fast Company
After being lied to and kept in the dark at previous companies, CEO Mathilde Collin decided she’d give her staff total access to everything.
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Missing The Forest Through The Trees – AVC
We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what they were doing at the time and not enough on what they could do, ...
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How to Unlock Your Team’s Creativity - Harvard Business Review
Encourage a growth mindset.
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy – cdixon blog
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten years ago. ...
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Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets | First Round Review
Nonobvious markets can lead to hypergrowth, but they’re hard to spot in the moment. Leaning on his experience as a seasoned investor and operator, ...
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IndieHackers podcast - with Lynne Tye of Key Values
How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key Values After spending years pursuing a career in science, Lynne T...
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The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least Sense - Entrepreneur.com
Think business is all about rational thought and logic? Think again -- and to find the biggest, best ideas, start thinking way outside the box.
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Why Startups Fall Apart at 50 Employees – Please Advise – Medium
Four ways to combat the chaos that seems to happen at every startup when they reach the “teenager stage” of more than 50 employees.
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Three stories every startup needs to tell - Fast Company
One thing that separates great startup pitches from merely good ones isn’t always a better business model or a more compelling product. It’s the st...
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Research: Why Managers Ignore Employees’ Ideas - Harvard Business Review
Two studies reveal two reasons.
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Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any idea...
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How Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp & PayPal with Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook".
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Early Work - Paul Graham essay
October 2020 One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an i...
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How to Think for Yourself - Paul Graham essay
November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, fo...
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